The Light of the Third Angel’s Message
Sister Caroline R. Austin writes from Vt., Dec. 11th, 1855:—"I feel to thank the Lord, for the light that shines upon the pilgrim's pathway, and that it is an increasing light that will shine more and more unto the perfect day. When I heard the First Angel's Message, I believed it, and loved to listen to its proclamation; but it filled me with doubts and fear. I doubted whether I was a christian, though I had long been striving to be one; and I feared that I should at last be left as an unfaithful servant, although I meant to perform every duty as well as I could. I could not then see, as I can now, what God required we should do, that we might have a right to the tree of life, and enter in through the gates into the city. O I feel to thank God for the Third Angel's Message, which not only assures us that the coming of our Lord and Saviour is near at hand, but it sheds a glorious light on the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus. I love it for its separating truths. When we keep all the Commandments we shall be separated from the world two days in the week; and when we get the testimony of Jesus into our hearts so that we shall live it out in all our actions and words, we shall not be of this world, even as our Master was not of this world. May God help us to remember that for every idle word we shall be called to an account, and enable us so to watch and pray always that we shall be accounted worthy to escape all the things that are coming on the earth, and to stand before the Son of man."