Let us Be more in Earnest.
By J. M. Gallemore
Of all professed Christians, Seventh-day Adventists ought to be the most earnest and devout. So far as our knowledge of them extends they are; but shall we not see them rising higher and higher in the scale of Christian perfection? Christians must and will grow in the love and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, and in the love and knowledge of the truth. With the important truths intrusted to us, and with the light that is shining upon our pathway, there is a fearful responsibility resting upon us. There is very much more required of those to whom much light is given than of those who, as yet, have not been permitted to see this light. As a denomination, we are firm in the belief that the proclamation of the third angel’s message, given to mankind just prior to the second advent of our Saviour to redeem his people, is entrusted to us. This message is sounding louder and louder, and there is every evidence that the hand of the Lord is in the work. As we are assured that the message is now being given which must ripen the world either for destruction or the kingdom of God, the conclusion follows that the last generation is now on the stage of action. If the last generation is not now living, the message is being given too soon; for it belongs to that generation which must witness the closing scenes of our dispensation. So, then, if the message is right, it is also a fact that there are those now giving the message, and those hearing it, who must live until the Lord shall appear; hence time must be short. As a people, do we realize the responsibility resting upon us? May the Lord enable us to realize it more and more, and may we grow more deeply in earnest in the cause. Living, as we have every reason for believing that we do, in the hour of God’s Judgment, in the time of the atoning and cleansing work of our great High Priest, how solemn, how earnest, how prayerful, how watchful, and how diligent, we ought to be. Remember, we are waiting in the outer courts for the Lord to come and crown his watching, anxious, and toiling people, with the gift of eternal life.