The Time is Come | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 9, 1858

The Time is Come.

For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God. 1 Pet. iv.

Solemn words! And are we indeed living in the judgment, and will the righteous scarcely be saved? Must we be holy in heart in order to be saved? Then how diligently should we search our hearts to know the motive of all our actions, and all our words. We have a perfect rule by which to try ourselves, and surely we need not be at a loss to know our duty, when the word of God is so plain. Not only is our duty made plain, but many ways are pointed out in which we should not go. We are told to love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him; for all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1 John ii, 15, 16. Then why should we seek the applause of the world, or follow its fashions? Is this coming out from the world and being separate? Let the means spent in needless adornings and conformity to the fashions of the day, be laid out for books, and scattered around among those who may be brought to a knowledge of the truth. In this way precious souls may be saved. Isaiah speaks of fearful judgments that shall come upon the daughters of Zion that are haughty. Can it be that some among the remnant are of this class? O, let us awake to this subject, and come out from the world, and be indeed separate, and the Lord's peculiar people.