p. 533 | HEED THE LIGHT by George A. Carroll

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 3, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 34.

HEED THE LIGHT.

By George A. Carroll

THE prophetic light is of no value to those who will not employ it. Its rays may shine forth with electric brilliancy, but all is darkness to those who are willfully blind. The angry roar of the billows of coming judgment may break upon the ears of the apostate and the worldling, but the warning voice is unheeded amid the present pursuit of evil pleasures, and the forming of plans for future peace. Poor dupes of the "false prophet," how soon will the "sign of the Son of Man" blight your giddy fancies, and disclose to you how futile are your hopes of refuge in other folds than the fold of Christ! You look for peace, "and, behold, trouble"—"destruction cometh, and they shall seek peace and there shall be none." "The time is come, the day of trouble is near." "The rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded, violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness."

It seems strange that those who read the Bible can be so blind to its teachings, and the signs around them, and so stupefied with the siren song of this world's delusions, that they are oblivious to all sense of Bible teaching, and exercise what zeal they have in perverting the grand truths of the word of God, to their own destruction. "His watchmen are blind, they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark, sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber." "They are shepherds that cannot understand; they look to their own way, everyone for his gain." "Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul." "But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."

How real the coming of the Lord now seems, while the signs are so unmistakably heralding his speedy approach to deliver his chosen and faithful people! While apostates and the world are seeking to combine their forces in the false hope of safety, let us who are endeavoring to follow the light unite in removing all dissensions by obeying the truth; and as its light illumines our pathway, we shall behold more perfectly the bond of fellowship that unites us to Him who is able to "save unto the uttermost all who put their trust in him." "In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us." "Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen."—George A. Carroll.