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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 20, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 38.

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2 Chron. 20:20: “Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe His prophets, so shall ye prosper.”
James 5:8: “Stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”
A good tree, a strong tree, strikes its roots deep down. The temple in Jerusalem was founded 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 fail to do that, if we do not 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.