Watchful Until the End
By Rebecca J. Smith
THE last hours of a night of watching are the longest and most tiresome; the last moments in a weary waiting-time are hardest to endure. So to the church in the last moments of time the burden of waiting will be heaviest; the temptation to sleep the strongest. But "unto them that look for Him," who faithfully "keep the word of His patience," who maintain their "confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end," will He "appear the second time without a sin-offering unto salvation"—life forevermore! How fearful to lose it! How inexpressibly glorious and blessed to gain it! The more trying the days, the more will be the need of vigilance. We are now in the hour of temptation and danger. Watch, therefore, lest coming suddenly He find you sleeping. —Rebecca J. Smith.