p. 75 | Be thou faithful

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 9, 1875

“Be thou faithful.”

Be a decided, upright, straightforward, uncompromising, outspoken Christian. Don't be ashamed of Jesus or of his cause. If men oppose you, or scorn you, or evil entreat you, and thus strive to discourage or turn you aside, pray for them, and go right on. If you are willing to be like Christ, you must be willing to encounter the same contradictions of sinners against yourself, the same reproach, the same rejection. But you must, like Him, with an incorruptible and unwavering devotion to the right, regardless of the scorn and reproach of an ungodly world, go right through, looking up to God for strength. A little while and all this opposition and violence will cease; and if you abide faithful, you will not fail of your reward. Soon you will be where sin and persecution will not trouble you, and in Heaven you will not be sorry for your sacrifices, your courageous resistance of wrong, your sufferings for Jesus' sake. “Be ye steadfast and immovable.”