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seeking a better country are almost home. I feel as if I must cry aloud,
Homeward bound! Rapidly we are nearing the time when Christ will
come to gather His redeemed to Himself.—
The Review and Herald,
November 13, 1913
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All Discourses in Light of Christ’s Coming—The truths of
prophecy are bound up together, and as we study them, they form
a beautiful cluster of practical Christian truth. All the discourses that
we give are plainly to reveal that we are waiting, working, and praying
for the coming of the Son of God. His coming is our hope. This hope is
to be bound up with all our words and works, with all our associations
and relationships.—
Letter 150, 1902
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Key to History—An understanding of the hope of Christ’s second
coming is the key that unlocks all the history that follows, and explains
all the future lessons.—
Letter 218, 1906
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Effect of Preaching the Second Advent—The second coming of
the Son of man is to be the wonderful theme kept before the people.
Here is a subject that should not be left out of our discourses. Eternal
realities must be kept before the mind’s eye, and the attractions of the
world will appear as they are, altogether profitless as vanity. What are
we to do with the world’s vanities, its praises, its riches, its honors, or
its enjoyments?
We are pilgrims and strangers who are waiting, hoping, and praying
for that blessed hope, the glorious appearing of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ. If we believe this and bring it into our practical life,
what vigorous action would this faith and hope inspire; what fervent
love one for another; what careful holy living for the glory of God;
and in our respect for the recompense of the reward, what distinct
lines of demarcation would be evidenced between us and the world.—
Manuscript 39, 1893
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Keep It Before the People—The truth that Christ is coming
should be kept before every mind.—
Letter 131, 1900
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A Caution Against Time-Setting Expressions—The times and
seasons God has put in His own power. And why has not God given us
this knowledge?—Because we would not make a right use of it if He
did. A condition of things would result from this knowledge among
our people that would greatly retard the work of God in preparing
a people to stand in the great day that is to come. We are not to be
engrossed with speculations in regard to the times and the seasons