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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 7, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 23.

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By Eliza H. Morton

This is an age of progress. The present century is remarkable on account of the onward march of civilization. The arts and sciences have improved. Inventions have multiplied. Knowledge has increased; and the whole world has pressed on at a rapid rate. Satan has had his shoulder at the wheel, and some of the push has been due to his energetic spirit. Crimes unparalleled have been committed, and wickedness has flourished in “high places.” The Bible student sees in all this a fulfillment of prophecy; and now, if ever, we need to press on in the divine life. The sands of time are about run out; probation is nearly ended, and the last pages of the history of this world are nearly written. Life and death are at stake. An eternal inheritance is before us, and a work to do, of the importance of which we never dreamed. Every moment is more precious than a nugget of gold. Every hour helps decide our eternal weal or woe.
I seem to see written upon the clouds in letters of fire, “Time is short.” Brothers and sisters in Christ, if your feet stumble upon the rocky steeps of this mortal life, Jesus will put beneath you his strong arm, and help you to arise and press on. If fortune plays you false and the world looks dark to-day, be of good courage, “there is a good time coming to-morrow;—press on.” If the world frowns at your consistent godly life, never mind; it will envy you by and by, and weep that it did not with you press on toward the mark of the prize of the high calling as it is in Christ Jesus. If hunger stares you in the face, if death enters your household, if sickness makes life a burden, do not be disheartened; but remember you seek a city whose inhabitants are never tired, hungry, or sick, and where death is not known; therefore, faint not, but press on even to the gates of the shining city, and receive the prize and wear the crown promised to the overcomer.
ELIZA H. MORTON.