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souls to Christ. What excuse can be offered for the neglect of the
great, grand work that Christ gave His life to accomplish?
We cannot afford in the few days we have here on earth to spend
our time in trifling and nothingness. We need to humble our souls
before God, that every heart may drink in the truth, and let it work in
the life a reformation that will convince the world that this is indeed
the truth of God. Let the life be hid with Christ in God. Only when
we seek the Lord as little children, when we cease picking flaws
in our brethren and sisters, and in those who are seeking to carry
faithfully the responsibilities of the work, and seek to get our own
hearts right with God, can He use us to the glory of His name.
We all need to come into a self-sacrificing position before God
if our work is to be accepted by Him. Let us remember that profes-
sion is nothing unless we have the truth in the heart. We need the
converting power of God to take hold of us, that we may understand
the needs of a perishing world. The burden of my message to you is:
Get ready, get ready to meet the Lord. Trim your lamps, and let the
light of truth shine forth into the byways and the hedges. There is a
world to be warned of the near approach of the end of all things.
My brethren and sisters, seek the Lord while He may be found.
There is a time coming when those who have wasted their time and
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opportunities will wish they had sought Him. God has given you
reasoning faculties. He wants you to keep in the line of reason and
in the line of labor. He wants you to go forth to our churches to
labor earnestly for Him. He wants you to institute meetings for those
outside the churches, that the people may learn the truths of this
last message of warning. There are places where you will be gladly
received, where souls will thank you for coming to their help. May
the Lord help you to take hold of this work as you have never yet
taken hold of it.
Let us begin to work for those who have not had the light. “All
power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth,” the Saviour declares,
“and, lo, I am with you alway.”
Matthew 28:18, 20
. What we need
is a living faith, faith to proclaim over the rent sepulcher of Joseph
that we have a living Saviour, one who will go before us and who
will work with us. God will do the work if we will furnish Him the
instruments. There needs to be among us a great deal more of prayer
and much less of unbelief. We need to lift up the standard higher