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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 24, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 21.

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TO THE UNCONVERTED.

By Vesta Cady

Deep sadness often fills my heart when I see so few that are willing to accept the oft-repeated invitation of our Saviour to enjoy full and free salvation. Jesus' kind and tender heart is sorrowful, angels weep, and the transgressors also are unhappy. Oh! why will they not come when all things are ready? My dear friend, Satan's suggestion will be that you had better try to reform, and then come to the Lord for help. What would you think of a sick person, who says to his friends when about to send for a physician, Wait till I am some better, then you may call the doctor? or of a man about to be imprisoned for debt, who should say to a kind friend offering to pay the whole, Wait till I can earn some money, then you may help me?
Jesus offers to heal your wounded heart, to cure your sin-sick soul. Will you let him? He offers to pay your debt of sin, Will you with gratitude accept his offer? Do you want a never-failing source of happiness and peace? Do you want a friend who will never, never leave you? Then come, come. Bring all your sin, your sorrow, to him in prayer. Ask him to take you, just as you are, to cleanse your guilt, and wash away all your stains of character in his blood. Satan will do all he can to prevent your coming. Your poor, weak flesh may be ready to give way; but call to mind the words of Jesus to his tempted disciple, “Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat; but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.” Luke 22:31, 32.
We have so many promises, how can we be discouraged? and yet, the human mind is so weak, that we forget these promises, and are led astray. When you are tempted, look up to a prayer-hearing God, and he will come to your rescue. Hide yourself under the shelter of his wings. Then, “when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.” Isa. 59:19. My prayer is that you may so avail yourself of the offers of mercy that you may know the worth of a crucified and risen Saviour, and finally enjoy in the new earth an eternity of bliss.
VESTA CADY.
Poy Sippi, Wis.