A REMINDER by Mary M. Faulkner

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 8, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 15

A REMINDER.

By Mary M. Faulkner

BY MRS. MARY M. FAULKNER.

Our probationary time is very precious, and each moment should be carefully improved, if we would be living Christians. “To-day the decision [for eternity] is in our hands, but soon it will have passed beyond our control.” Three precious months of 1880 are already gone. No doubt many of us purposed, at the beginning of the year, to make it the best of our lives. But how is it? Do we improve every opportunity for doing good? Are we not falling far behind our resolutions? Are we selfish? and is our love of ease so great that we account everything that might be done for the Master too great a sacrifice, not having before the mind the infinite price paid for our redemption? Let us all remember that we are not our own; for we are bought with a price.

Our spiritual advancement is not marked by some great deed that we may do, but by the faithful performance of the every-day duties of life, that to us may seem small and unimportant. I desire to have a part with God’s people in their labors here, and a place with them in the glorious hereafter. Rest after the toil will be sweet.

“’Tis sweet to work for Jesus; There’s resting by-and-by.”