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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 19, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 17, No. 18.

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E. A. DAVIS

By E. A. Davis

From Sister Davis.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I read with pleasure your testimonies in the Review, and would like to hear from many more, especially the lonely ones. What a comfort it is to them that God is not confined to numbers, but is willing to meet one; and none can hinder them from holding communion with him daily. Be true to your Lord and Saviour, and you need not fear to tread the rough and thorny way; though all at times may look dark, yet remember Jesus has said, Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
We all profess to be walking towards the celestial city. Will every one be admitted through its gates? Can we live on in the indulgence of known sin and expect an entrance there? Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal. vi, 7. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Gal. v, 24.
A short time since I read an account of a young man who, while traveling in foreign lands, lost his passport. He succeeded in deceiving the officers at stations of secondary importance, but on arriving at the frontier the demand for his passport was imperative. His loss, and the various artifices and subterfuges by which he had managed to conceal that loss, were detected, and his further progress arrested. Now if we would see the inside of the city of the living God, every one of us, young and old, must obtain a passport, and let us see to it that we have the right kind, for a spurious one will do us no good whatever. For if it were possible for us with such an one, to travel the whole length of the road and come up to the gates of the city, yet Jesus would never open those pearly gates and bid us welcome, but would say, I never knew you; depart from me ye that work iniquity. We read that without holiness no man shall see God. Here then we have the true passport, and with it we shall have an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom of God.
Those that take pleasure in unrighteousness and still think to find their way into the kingdom, would do well to look to their passport. Either they have lost it, or else never had the right kind. They may have a form of godliness, a name and place with the children of God, but if they are not striving to purify themselves by obedience to the word of God, they have great reason to fear that they will never be admitted into the kingdom.
We must be consistent Christians. Our works must correspond with our faith. We must not pray one thing and do another, but must act in unison with our prayers, and press onward. We have but a little way farther to go, and as we travel on let us make it our first business to secure to ourselves a true passport, one that will carry us clear through. The only way to obtain it is by keeping the commandments of God faithfully, and living out all the precepts of Jesus.
Shall we not be diligent in our Master's service a little while longer? Jesus is soon coming, and his reward is with him to give to every man as his work shall be. O that we all may receive the reward of the overcomers, is the prayer of your sister in Christ.

E. A. DAVIS

Mill Grove, N. Y.