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Light for a World in Darkness, December 3
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness
the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be
seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to
the brightness of thy rising. Isaiah 60:2, 3.
Darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people, and how
ardently we should desire the presence of the divine Instructor to lead us
in the way of truth and righteousness. God has already spoken to man
at sundry times and in divers places and in various ways, yet the world’s
ignorance is increasing. We must speak with more pronounced utterances
concerning the truth, that we may bring to man a knowledge of God. The
distinction between Christians and worldlings must be more marked. The
Bible must become a book of more prominence among us, and the attentive,
diligent searcher by painstaking effort must search for the hidden treasure.
The maxims of men, the dogmas of error, though advanced by those who
profess to be interpreters of the Word of God, must be discarded, for they
are calculated to cover up the truth....
The Jews turned from the Lord Jesus, whom the prophets foretold as
the coming Messiah, and they have not been able to see to the end of that
which was abolished. In making void the law of God, in turning from the
truth with aversion, the Christian world have turned from Christ, and have
made manifest the fact that they were not accustomed to looking upon truth
of heavenly origin. The darkness has become like a funeral pall, and it
covers the whole earth. This is not the time to become weak and sickly in
faith. This is no time to permit the world to convert the church of God. Let
those who have light now arise and shine....
Those who are waiting for the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ cannot mingle with those who are lovers of pleasures more than
lovers of God, who are seeking amusement in games and pleasure parties.
As faithful watchmen they must proclaim the warning, “The morning
cometh, and also the night” (Isaiah 21:12).3 [344]
3 Letter 84, 1895.
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