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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 15, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 40, No. 18.

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A Word to the Young.

By Chas. L. Kellogg

DEAR READERS OF THE REVIEW: I have often thought I would contribute something for the paper in favor of present truth. I have been too slack in my Master's cause; but since our good camp-meeting in Vermont, I have resolved to be more faithful in the future than in the past; and when I consider how pure and holy I must be in order to be owned of God as one of his dear children, I feel like striving harder to live out the truth, harder to overcome pride, harder to overcome self. Oh! I want a shelter from the storm, a place within the city of God when the earth shall be dissolved in a sea of flame.
And I would say to the young friends that read the REVIEW, It is high time that we awake out of sleep. God wants us to purify ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh, that we may be ready to stand in the time of trouble which is coming upon the earth, to try us and see if we are in earnest in serving the Lord. And if we are weighed in the balances and found wanting, we cannot be accepted as God's children. Then let us flee to the arms of outstretched mercy and confess our sins unto the Lord, with weeping and with godly sorrow, that they may go beforehand to judgment, so that we may not have anything to condemn us in the time of trouble.
Dear young friends, let the warning that we have had through the gifts in the church, that but very few of the young will be saved for the lack of consecration to God, sink with weight deep into our hearts. And may it actuate us to new life and vigor in the work of overcoming. We are living in the Judgment hour. Time is very short. The blessed Jesus is now pleading for fallen man; but soon he will cease pleading and come to take vengeance on the ungodly. Oh! solemn thought! But yet it is a stern reality.
Shall any of us be among that number upon whom the blessed Jesus will come to take vengeance? We need not, if we will comply with the word of God. Zeph. 2: 3: “Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.” Then let us seek the Lord with our whole hearts, that we may escape in the great day of the Lord.
CHAS. L. KELLOGG. Brooklyn, N. Y.