Let Him Alone | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 30, 1861

"Let Him Alone."

DiD you ever think what a terrible meaning is contained in these three words? To be let alone of God—what an idea! Yet dreadful as it may appear, there is a time when God's forbearance to the sinner is exhausted, when he says to the messengers of grace, "Let him alone;" conscience is no more to alarm, the Holy Spirit is no more to strive; unchecked, he is left to pursue his own chosen way. Hitherto, impediments have been thrown in his way. The message of truth proclaimed by the ambassadors of Christ, has produced for a moment a deep conviction of guilt. The exhibition of the cross of Christ has moved him to tears—the justice of God has caused him to tremble. But continued resistance has resulted in this most deplorable and wretched state of being "let alone." When such a crisis has arrived the sinner's ruin is inevitable. When the sinner is let alone, left to himself, to make his way to heaven, he has a task to perform which is without and beyond his strength. "Let him alone." Faithful messengers, exert no longer your aid. Thou monitor conscience, suffer the sleeper to sleep on till the rapids of eternity have swallowed him up. Thou grieved and despised, and rejected Spirit, urge no longer your slighted proffers; vouchsafe no longer that aid which so long, and for so many times, has been spurned away contemptuously. "Let him alone." Endless ruin is the only consequence. The eternal destiny of your soul is as surely fixed as it can be after the decision of the judgment. The sword of divine vengeance may not fall immediately—no visible, outward mark of God's displeasure can be seen. Adversity does not visit you—you are prosperous as ever in your plans and business. All things move on as pleasantly and as successfully as you can wish. But alas! you are "let alone." Reader, can this be your condition? And will you have one word to answer in the day of trial, if it should be so? And if it is not your condition now, have you not reason to fear that such will be the result of your continued neglect of those gracious provisions which are now within your reach?—Cong. Herald.