Our Responsibility
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on the watch for opportunities to use for God the talents He has given
us.
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The world is a theater; the actors, its inhabitants, are preparing to
act their part in the last great drama. With the great masses of mankind
there is no unity, except as men confederate to accomplish their selfish
purposes. God is looking on. His purposes in regard to His rebellious
subjects will be fulfilled. The world has not been given into the
hands of men, though God is permitting the elements of confusion and
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disorder to bear sway for a season. A power from beneath is working
to bring about the last great scenes in the drama—Satan coming as
Christ, and working with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in
those who are binding themselves together in secret societies. Those
who are yielding to the passion for confederation are working out the
plans of the enemy. The cause will be followed by the effect.
Transgression has almost reached its limit. Confusion fills the
world, and a great terror is soon to come upon human beings. The end
is very near. We who know the truth should be preparing for what is
soon to break upon the world as an overwhelming surprise.
John writes: “And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on
it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was
found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened,
which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things
which were written in the books, according to their works.”
Revelation
20:11, 12
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Are we as a people asleep? Oh, if the young men and young women
in our institutions who are now unready for the Lord’s appearing,
unfitted to become members of the Lord’s family, could only discern
the signs of the times, what a change would be seen in them! The Lord
Jesus is calling for self-denying workers to follow in His footsteps, to
walk and work for Him, to lift the cross, and to follow where He leads
the way.
Many are readily satisfied with offering the Lord trifling acts of
service. Their Christianity is feeble. Christ gave Himself for sinners.
With what anxiety for the salvation of souls we should be filled as we