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Harvesttime, June 10
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of
sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night
is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of
darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Romans 13:11, 12
.
We form a part of the great web of humanity, and a mutual influence
passes from one to another, not only in the church but the family in heaven
and the family on earth blend, in order that Christ may become a power in the
world. All the jewels of truth given to patriarchs and prophets, which have
been accumulating from age to age, and from generation to generation, are to
be gathered up, as hereditary trusts.
The sacred influences of present and past generations make a strong and
powerful agency for God, able to stand, not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities and powers, and spiritual wickedness in high places.
God’s people of today have all the privileges and opportunities of former
generations and increased light to make them more powerful in the work of
God than the people of preceding generations have been. These advantages
demand corresponding returns. In harmony with our heavenly treasures are
to be our efforts to open the way before others.
The Lord is at hand. Heavenly intelligences united with sanctified in-
fluences of earth are to proclaim the third angel’s message and sound the
warning, The end of all things is at hand. “For yet a little while, and he that
shall come will come, and will not tarry” (
Hebrews 10:37
). A people are to
be prepared to stand in the day of the Lord, and having done all, to stand.
Those who crowd together in cities and villages are making a serious mistake.
Those who thus neglect to extend their influence, by circulating wider and
wider, reaching to the uttermost parts of the world are neglecting to stand at
their post of duty....
In His prayer for His disciples shortly before His ascension, Christ said,
“Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me
through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and
I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that
thou hast sent me” (
John 17:20, 21
). Oh, that these blessed words may be
written by the finger of God upon every heart.—
Manuscript 7, June 10, 1891
,
“Christian Service in the Living Church.”
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