OUR HIGH CALLING by R. F. Cottrell

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 10, 1880

OUR HIGH CALLING.

By R. F. Cottrell

God is doing a great, a glorious work, a solemn and fearful work, the work of winding up human affairs and bringing probationary time to its close. He has called us, dear brethren in the Lord, to be co-workers with him in making known the solemn and searching truth of the last message of warning to our fellow men, a message of which their acceptance or rejection will decide their future and eternal destiny. We have been called to a high and holy calling. Do we realize it? Do we have that love for souls who are exposed to eternal ruin and whom God designs to save through our instrumentality, which we ought to have?

The calling of the Christian is a high and holy calling; and especially those who live when the harvest is ripening and have so little time to work, and upon whom devolves the high trust of proclaiming the last warning to mankind and bringing the remnant of the church out of the accumulated mass of tradition and error into the simplicity and purity of the Bible truth, have a work and responsibility unsurpassed, certainly, by that of any that ever dwelt upon the earth.

May God help all engaged in this work to realize our high calling. Not to be puffed up and exalted, supposing that we are the peculiar favorites of Heaven, but in humility, justly appreciating the vast responsibility resting upon us. Let us "walk worthy of the vocation wherewith we are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love." R. F. COTTRELL