p. 26 | Be Ye Therefore Ready by S. M. Holly

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 9, 1872

Be Ye Therefore Ready.

By S. M. Holly

THE Saviour warns his people in many places to watch and be ready. He plainly gives us to understand that there will be great danger to both old and young in the last days. Some will be given to covetousness and worldly-mindedness; and others very anxious to follow the vain fashions of the day. Some will say, My Lord delayeth his coming; but he says, Let your loins be girded about with truth, and your lamps burning, and ye, yourselves, like unto men that wait for their Lord.

We are now in a waiting position. The truth looks very clear to my mind. I have not a doubt but this is the work of the Lord. Will all that read these lines be ready?

While reading Bro. Andrews’ review of Preble, I have felt to praise the Lord for the truths of the Bible more than ever. If men would stop and consider before they undertake to tear down God’s holy law, and read especially Matt. 5: 17-19, it seems they would not be engaged in doing the work of the enemy.

My prayer is, that we may not be deceived. There is a little flock to whom it will be the Father’s good pleasure to give the kingdom. Another year has drawn to a close, one full of interest and peril. Shall we not learn from it that time is very short, and we are fast hastening to the Judgment? May the Lord help us to be ready when the Son of Man cometh. S. M. HOLLY.