p. 87 | The Accepted Time Is Now

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 5, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 6

The Accepted Time Is Now

The proper time, the right time, the prosperous time, the good time, the favorable time, the sure time, the successful time, the golden time—any or all of these—may be said to be comprehended in the great Scriptural idea of “accepted time.” And this time is now. Yesterday was a good time; all the by-gone years were a good time. But they are buried to us forever. Many of us would give a great price to live over again those lost days. We weep as we remember them. We think we would use them better, and live a greater and better life, if we could actually redeem for ourselves those blooming springtimes, and joyous summers, and glorious autumns, and sublime winters. They were once accepted times for us; but, alas! they are ours no more. They will testify of us in the last great trial, and that is all. We must leave them, however deep the sorrow as we retrace them, and however many our tears in remembrance of what we have lost forever.