The Day of the Lord by Roswell F. Cottrell

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 11, 1878

The Day of the Lord.

By Roswell F. Cottrell

THE day of the Lord is near. The world and many professors of the Christian faith do not believe it, or, if they do, will not acknowledge it. Faith in the Bible is so weak that the mass would be ashamed to avow their faith in things which are still so clearly revealed. It is saddening to think that that day is coming upon such multitudes as a destruction from the Almighty. "Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty." Isa. 13:6. "The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night; for when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." 1 Thess. 5:23. That great and most tremendous day is before us. Who will be prepared to meet it? Who of us, my brethren, are living and laboring as if we believed it? Many will be sadly disappointed in that day. Now is the time to inquire, "Lord, is it I?" Many will ask too late, "Who shall be able to stand?" because then it will be that "the great day of his wrath is come." Rev. 6:17. Now, by earnest, prayerful, laborious, and persevering effort, we may escape that terrible fate. Who will prepare for that day by coming to Christ for pardon, keeping the commandments of God, and laboring self-sacrificingly for the salvation of others? "Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, meekness; it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger." R. F. C.