p. 191 | The Roman Sentinel

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 8, 1874

The Roman Sentinel.

WHEN Pompeii was destroyed, there were very many buried in the ruins of it who were afterward found in very different situations. There were some found who were in the streets, as if they had been attempting to make their escape.—There were some found in deep vaults, as if they had gone thither for security. There were some found in lofty chambers; but where did they find the Roman sentinel? They found him standing at the city gate, with his hand still grasping the war weapon, where he had been placed by his captain. And there—while the heavens threatened him—there, while the earth shook beneath him—there, while the lava-streams rolled—he had stood at his post; and there, after a thousand years, he was found. So let Christians stand to their duty.