ENDURANCE by J. F. Bahler

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 11, 1879

ENDURANCE

By J. F. Bahler

If the Christian, in the hour that would test his endurance, loses his hold on Christ and does not recover it again, he loses eternal life, and the privilege of seeing Jesus, saints, and angels, and the bright, glorious, shining city of God. The grandeur of the clear river of life, the golden streets and the tree of life, are known to mortals only through the eye of faith. But when we fall, the eye of faith no longer sees these promised glories; they all become a blank. Oh, it is sad to fall! but endurance will enable us through faith to live in Christ, though mangled and torn in the contest with the wolves that seek our life.

“He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” Mark 13:13. May the Saviour and his followers forgive my fall. Through Christ, hereafter, endurance shall be my motto, ever striving to push forward until I shall gain immortality and eternal life, and enjoy the privilege of following the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. What a privilege it will be to follow that loving Saviour, who seeks those who have strayed and fallen, and brings them back to the fold.

J. F. BAHLER.

Denison, Texas.