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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 14, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 2.

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CONDEMNATION.

"If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things." Let us think how much this means. Our little qualms of conscience, our little sorrows over faults and foibles of conduct, these trouble us for the moment, and then go. But they are not gone! God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. And if sins remain on our conscience in that day, even though they went from our memory here, we cannot stand before God—indeed, we cannot see God. It is written, "Without holiness no man shall see the Lord." We think that it is only necessary to go to Heaven to see God. Not so. "Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart." If my hands are not clean, and my heart be not pure, though I be placed close to the throne, I could not see God; I should rather flee from his presence, and call on the rocks and mountains to hide me from his face.—Selected.