An Exhortation by Vesta J. Cady

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 15, 1874

An Exhortation.

By Vesta J. Cady

WHILE we are busy with our daily cares, let us not forget the responsibilities that rest upon us as lightbearers, in this time when darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the minds of the people. Let us continually watch lest some chance for doing good slip by, and souls be lost forever through our carelessness. Oh! that we may be aroused to a sense of our true condition, and feel burden of soul for those perishing around us.

God’s faithful servants are taxed to the utmost, bearing burdens, taking responsibilities, planning and leading out in this great work. Brethren and sisters, let us take home to each of our hearts the burden and weight of the third angel’s message. Let us begin to work for ourselves, and for others; for ourselves, by heeding the counsel of the faithful and true Witness; for others, by warning them of the world’s approaching doom, and telling them how to escape.

There is work for all; for the humblest church-member as well as the most able minister. Some have five talents, some only one, but God will as surely demand account with those who have only one as with the one with five. Let us sow the seed now, and the Judgment-day will show a rich harvest. And as the Sabbath succeeds the hours of toil and labor, so our rest in the kingdom of God will be more sweet for our having toiled and suffered to obtain it.

Vesta J. Cady.

Poy Sippi, Nov. 26, 1874.