WILL YOU CONSIDER? by F. Peabody

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, November 18, 1884

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 61, No. 46

WILL YOU CONSIDER?

By F. Peabody

BY F. PEABODY.

My dear friend, stop a moment. Stop thinking? No; but think about something else. The Lord has said things in his book you ought to know. Have you seen them? You say you have no time. Lay aside some of your care, and give a little attention to that book. It is a wonderful book. Read it much; I am sure you would be interested. It tells of men in the past who did just what you are doing; they neglected to give attention to what the Lord said, and they were swept away by that flood of water. Then there was one large city where the people spent their time in nothing but telling or hearing some new thing. They had left the one true God and had become loaded down with thirty thousand false ones.

You say you have no doubt that God is the author of that book called the Bible, but you have no time to read it. My dear friend, he has certainly spoken about you, and I think you would better take time to learn what he has said. He has given you such good counsel about all your affairs in life; and such sympathy as you can find nowhere else in the world is vouchsafed when cares and trials weigh heavily. It tells of prophets who lived and wrote ages ago. They said that one should come who would change the order of things wonderfully, and that he would be of heavenly origin. And then in another part of it, we learn that he came, how he staid a short time, and returned to heaven; but not until he had made arrangements to have his work carried on in his absence. He assured those he left that he would come again, but not alone then. Do you ask the reason of his coming again? Why, to make all things new, and give long life to his people. Not on this old earth as it is, groaning under the curse of sin; but it will be so renovated that it will be a desirable place to live. Tears and sighs will not be known; and death, that enemy whom you and I would give all we possess to conquer when he approaches our homes, will be destroyed. All these, and many more things, this same Bible will reveal to you. Give it your attention. “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” Phil. 4:8.