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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 21, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 23.

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By F. M. Bragg

A WHOLE lifetime is none too long for the grand work of overcoming, that we may become, in all respects, unselfish, noble, generous and elevated in mind and soul.
Then why should so many of us pass a lifetime ere a knowledge of self is gained, and consequently we be through life unfitted to rightly direct our efforts in making ready for the world to come. The atonement of the Saviour can reach the ignorant where light is not given. But to us, any means that discovers our true condition should be “very highly esteemed,” and with what alacrity should we receive and follow out the light given to show our deficiencies and departures from the right. Truly we have no time to longer waste in needless mourning over the failures of the past.
The eleventh hour is fraught with the deepest interest. In this we must redeem the errors of past life and secure the best possible condition, that the remnant of time, left to us, in the present and future, may tell in bringing forth good fruit, and in living to Him who died for us.
F. M. BRAGG.