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Clear the King's Highway

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 19, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 12.

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Clear the King's Highway

By H. A. St. John

H. A. ST. JOHN
BEFORE the Lord Jesus can come in his glory, an image must be made to the beast, and the deadly wound healed; four angels must loose the four winds of strife and commotion; seven angels must pour out the seven last plagues successively; Satan and evil spirits must gather the nations to the great battle of Armageddon; and the voice of God must shake the heavens and the earth mightily. In none of these great events have the saints any part to act. But, strange as it may seem, every one of them is being held, delayed, waiting for the remnant church to awake, to put off the works of darkness and to put on the armor of light, and to give to all the world the last gospel message, with great divine illumination and power. Thus we may see clearly that as long as we remain lukewarm, we are not only failing to do our part in clearing the King's highway, but we are actually obstructing it.
Surely it is high time that we awake, and put on the Lord Jesus Christ. Then we shall have on the whole armor of light; then we shall be all light in the Lord, and in us will be no darkness at all; then the closing message of salvation will quickly go to all nations and peoples, shining with the brightness revealed in and through his dear people. Thus will the saints soon finish the work of Jesus assigned them. Then—
"With his radiance splendid Shall your light be blended When his glory shall appear."
The Lord Jesus, in his infinite love, is now rebuking us, and, it may be, chastening some of us, but—
"Affliction, though it seem severe, In mercy oft is sent; It stopped the prodigal's career, And caused him to repent."
May the Lord grant that in our cases it may afterward yield the peaceable fruits of righteousness; and it surely will, if we are rightly exercised thereby. Otherwise, we shall be spewed out of the mouth of the Lord, and forever lost. O, let us now, by zealous repentance, permit Jesus to come in and abide with us! Then when he comes in glory, he will change us to his own likeness, and take us to dwell with him forevermore. Sanitarium, Cal.