Before God | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 25, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 25.

Before God.

"I CHARGE thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ." Duty has a new meaning when it is done under the eye of one in authority. Napoleon always wanted his soldiers in battle to have in mind that the emperor was watching them. There are few servants who do not work with a fresh spur while their employers are in sight. The average school-room is commonly a very different place when the teacher has left it for a few minutes, than while he is present. A witness on the stand is more careful in his words there, than he would be elsewhere, because his every statement is noted by those who would prove him false if he told aught else than the truth. All of us speak, and learn, and work, and fight in the immediate presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and all that we do or fail to do is recorded for the day of Judgment. Do we act as if we realized this?