p. 180 | The Outlook by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 18, 1873

The Outlook.

By Uriah Smith

OTHERS have spoken in this paper of the cheering and encouraging opening of the present session of the General Conference. Strong confidence prevails that the Lord will work signally for his people at this time. He has already commenced. Light is being elicited, of which we have long stood in need. A basis will be found for strong and permanent union among all lovers of the cause of truth. The time has fully come for the people of God to take their stand like a well-disciplined army, the ranks all closed up, and all alienation of attitude or feeling banished from their counsels.

By the evident workings of the providence of God, and much to the joy of our hearts, Bro. and sister White are present with words of counsel and good cheer. The Lord is leading out the mind of Bro. W. in reference to the great work before us; and we believe that those who should especially stand by him, as well as believers everywhere, will be ready to second his efforts as they have not been seconded in the past. Those who have made failures are determined to retrieve them. The time that has been lost shall be redeemed.

The foundation has been well laid, and now the building must go up. The time has come for an onward movement, and there must be an advance along the whole line. So our leaders feel and talk, and so our hearts respond. And when we all find our position, and understand and do our duty, and purses which have long been empty and collapsed shall be filled with the gold which the True Witness counsels us to buy of him, and with love as the ruling motive, and with joined hands and united hearts, all take hold to push on the great work, it will go forward as surely as Israel went through the divided waters of the sea. Be that day not far distant.

URIAH SMITH.