Take Heed

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 27, 1864

TAKE HEED.—On a winter evening when the frost is setting in with glowing intensity, and when the sun is now far past the meridian and gradually sinking in the western sky, there is a double reason why the ground grows every moment harder and more impenetrable to the plough. On the one hand the frost of evening, with ever increasing intensity, is indurating the stiffened clods. On the other hand, the genial rays, which alone can soften them, are every moment withdrawing and losing their enlivening power. Oh take heed that it be not so with you. As long as you remain unconverted, you are under double process of hardening. The frosts of an eternal night are settling down upon your souls, and the Sun of righteousness is hastening to set upon you for evermore. If, then, the plough of grace cannot force its way into your ice-bound hearts to-day, what likelihood is there that it will enter in to-morrow?