Our Home Is Not Here by E. Hawkins

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 16, 1877

Our Home Is Not Here.

By E. Hawkins

“Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matt. 6 : 33). There is not one amongst us who does not need to be perpetually reminded, amidst the toils, or the distresses, or the anxieties, or the pleasures of this life, that he also is but “a stranger and a pilgrim upon earth.” Not one who does not perpetually need to lift up that humble prayer, ‘Lord, increase my faith.’ Not one, therefore, who has not ample cause to receive and to use with devout gratitude all those gracious means with which our Heavenly Father has blessed us, in order to strengthen our conviction of his faithfulness, and to invigorate our hope and trust; until our pilgrimage be past, our race be run, and we at length, through the precious blood of Christ, received among them that are called to “the promise of an eternal inheritance.”—E. Hawkins.