p. 47 | Where Are We? by V. O. Cross

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 21, 1873

Where Are We?

By V. O. Cross

To the student of prophecy this question has a very solemn and impressive answer: Amid the closing scenes of this world’s history, when the events of centuries are crowded, as it were, into a single day; when men’s hearts are failing them for fear, looking after those things that are coming upon the earth, when Jesus is about to come in all his glory, to reward every man according as his work shall be, to us who profess to believe these solemn truths, the question again comes home, Does our daily life show that we believe these things?

High and holy is our profession. How careful we ought to be to exemplify it in our daily life. Great responsibilities rest upon us. Much light is given us, and our duty is plainly pointed out, both in the word of God and through the Testimonies. Shall we heed these gracious warnings? or pass them by indifferently? May God forbid that we should be careless with regard to these things; but while “angels are watching the development of character and weighing moral worth,” may we be awake to a sense of our condition, forming such characters as will stand the test of the Judgment, that we may not be of those of whom it will be said, Weighed in the balances and found wanting.

How solemn is this Judgment hour! Let us arouse and seek the Lord with all our hearts; “seek righteousness, seek meekness, that we may be hid in the day of the Lord’s fierce anger.” V. O. Cross.