BE ESTABLISHED by J. R. Howatt

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 23, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 37.

BE ESTABLISHED.

By J. R. Howatt

A GOOD tree, a strong tree, strikes its roots deep down. The temple in Jerusalem was built upon a rock, and it is said that the foundation was as deep as the building itself was high. It must be so with us if we would be established. We must work, but we must also pray, and the more work we have to do the more prayer we must make. We must think of this world, but we must also think of the next. We must do what is right by men, but we must also do what is right by God. When we "get on" in this world, get riches, get more mercies, get more comforts, then we must get a deeper, deeper trust and hold on Jesus Christ. If we don't do that, if we don't get in deeper with Jesus as we get on more in the world, one day we shall be found adrift, for we have had too shallow a grip, we have not been established. Be established, settled on Jesus, for life and for death, once and forever.—J. R. Howatt.