Hold On | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 27, 1879

Hold On.

AN infidel passing through the shadows that hang around the close of life, and finding himself adrift amid the dark surges of doubt and uncertainty, without anchorage or harbor in view, was urged by his skeptical friends to "hold on." He answered, "I have no objections to holding on, but will you tell me what to hold on by?" Here is a question which men do well to consider before they reach the closing scene. If they are to hold on, what are they to hold on by? Where is their trust? Where is their confidence? What certainty have they as they go down into the shadows? Surely a man who comes to his dying hour needs something better than infidelity can give him; he needs the guiding hand of Him who is the resurrection and the life, who has conquered death and triumphed over the grave, and who is able to bring us safely off at last. He needs that hope which is "an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil."—Christian.