Are we Waiting for the Saviour?
By John D. Morton
THIS should be the earnest inquiry of every one professing the Third Angel's Message. Are we waiting for the Lord from heaven? If we are waiting, then we are ready to meet him. Imagine for a moment that the Saviour is now coming, that we see the cloud on which he sits. The cloud is nearing, and we behold the Saviour in his glory, the dead are raised. Would we be ready to be changed? I am afraid not. I am afraid we would say, Lord why hast thou come so soon? We are not prepared to meet thee. Then why should we be so impatient to have the Saviour come, if we are not waiting for him? We have a great work to perform before we shall be prepared to meet him. The Saviour says, [Luke xii, 33-36,] Sell that ye have and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth; for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Let your loins be girt about, and your lights burning, and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for the Lord when he will return from the wedding, that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Now if we would be waiting we must sell that we have, and help to speed on the last message of mercy. Do we believe the Saviour is soon coming? Do we believe that Jesus is now blotting out our sins or our names from the Lamb's book of life? Do we believe that the Saviour's work in the Sanctuary will soon be finished? Do we believe that the Saviour will soon come to raise the righteous dead, and change our vile bodies and fashion them like unto his glorious body? Then let us show our faith by our works. Show to the world that we are expecting the Saviour. Be zealous and repent, and buy gold tried in the fire that we may be rich, and white raiment that we may be clothed, and eye-salve that we may see. I believe that it will take all we possess to buy this gold tried in the fire, white raiment and the eye-salve. May the Lord help us, one and all, to cut loose from the world, to have a sacrificing spirit, to sacrifice for the cause of truth, that we may be waiting for the Saviour. JOHN D. MORTON. Delhi, Mich., Feb. 5th, 1857.