C. LAWTON by C. LAWTON

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 12, 1871

C. LAWTON

By C. LAWTON

Time.

How fast it flies! Soon it will be gone, and eternity will take its place. Can we keep pace with it. Do our actions correspond with our faith, and the time in which we live? Do we economize our time, and give all we can spare from other necessary duties of life to the cause of God, in doing good to others? or do we spend it in pleasure-seeking? in visiting? or any way to please the carnal mind? Do we realize that time is precious? and every moment that is wasted, or not improved to the glory of God, is sinful in his sight, and will be brought into judgment? If we partook of the spirit of our Master, who went about doing good, and who suffered with hunger and fatigue in ministering to the wants of others, our hearts would be in the work, and we should find no time to use unnecessarily for ourselves, but our hearts would yearn over those who have not the light of present truth. We should put forth a mightier effort to get the truth before them. Oh! that a deeper sense of the shortness of time, and our accountability to God, might rest upon us. The great day of God's wrath hasteth greatly. Soon the great controversy with mankind will be closed up. There is no time to spare. If we have any part to act in life's closing drama, we must be about it; and while we may feel deeply humbled under a sense of our unworthiness and inability to fill even the smallest place, we must not get discouraged, but do what we can. Oh! may we obey the truth by living out all the light. Then shall we feel its sanctifying power resting upon us, which will fit us for our place wherever it may be.

C. LAWTON

Jeff. Co., N. Y.