Purified and Made Ready for Christ’s Coming
Bro. E. Merrill writes from Kalamazoo, Mich. Nov. 22d, 1857. "I feel that we are living in a time when Christ sits as a refiner and purifier of his people, and if we are ever purified and made ready to enter through the gates of the city of God it must be now, before he leaves the Sanctuary. I feel the need of this purifying, when I look back for fifteen years and see how much wrong there has been in my life, and how much I have to do before I can abide his coming. "It is a faithful saying, for if we be dead with him we shall also live with him. We may think we are dead to the world when we are not, for the heart is deceitful. The young man in the Scripture thought that he was in the strait and narrow way till the Saviour showed him his idol. Let us see that we are really dead to the world and alive to God."