Preparing for the Decisive Day
By Editor
Bro. A. B. Pearsall of this place, writes: “I have thought for some time of writing a few lines for the Review, but a lack of confidence in myself has kept me from it. Since reading Testimony No. 4, I have had my attention directed to the goodness of God to us, in giving us the light of truth; and in view of the time in which we live, seeing that “the great decisive day is at hand,” I am led to wonder at the course that men will take, still rushing on with lightning speed the downward road to destruction and ruin. And when I look around upon those that strive to keep themselves in the dark, I am led to exclaim, What will be their condition when they find to their sad disappointment that they have been rejecting the last message of mercy? I can but ask myself, what will they do in that day?” O the goodness of God in giving us the light of truth, that we may have chance for repentance. Let us remember the case of Esau. Heb. xii, 17. “Then when I see the young among us in such a dangerous, unsafe situation, the question comes up, Where will the young be found in that day? Those who have had during their whole youth the light of truth before them? Where will they then appear? I would come a little nearer home still, and inquire, how it will be with me in that day. Shall I be found having done his will, and prepared to stand?”