MEDITATIONS by J. F. Bahler

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 9, 1876

MEDITATIONS

By J. F. Bahler

If you go to a quarterly meeting you will notice that usually the brethren manifest considerable interest during the prayer and conference meetings and the preaching; but when the T. and M. work should have attention, some of the brethren get tired, act indifferent, and go to sleep. When this subject, which requires all our zeal and energy, and to which we should give our best attention, comes up for consideration, how well it must please the devil thus to be able to seal our senses, and shut out from our minds the vast importance of this great, useful, mighty, and glorious work! It is the great work of God allotted to man. Let us awake to it, and engage in it with zeal, and learn all the ways that God would have us know to bring souls to his precious and glorious truth.

I have sometimes thought that the person who does not like a tract meeting needs to be converted. Let us work diligently before probationary time shall close; for soon the great Missionary, Jesus, will appear, to reward us for toiling in his vineyard.

J. F. BAHLER.