SUNSET by Frank S. Porter

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 1, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 14

SUNSET

By Frank S. Porter

BY FRANK S. PORTER.

There is a lesson to be learned from the sunset. Jesus said to his followers, “Ye are the light of the world;” and again, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.” If the last few rays of the setting sun have an unusual splendor and brilliancy, should not our last efforts in the cause of God be the best?

In view of the soon-coming Judgment, let us redouble our diligence, and walk in the light, while we have the light, that we may be the children of light. Begin now; now is the accepted time. Delays are dangerous.

Professed Christian, is your lamp trimmed and burning? Are you exerting all your powers to spread the light of present truth? The tract and missionary, Sabbath-school, and temperance works are all good agents to help us spread the truth. The last sunset is approaching; the last opportunity for doing good will soon be gone. The shades of evening are fast settling upon us; the hours of probation will soon cease; and shall it then appear that we have not done our duty, that our work is still unfinished?

Oh! let us work while the day lasts, and be prepared, when Jesus comes, to look up and exclaim, “Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us;” for soon “the night cometh, when no man can work.”