Earlier text: HEART PROMPTINGSSAVED BY FAMILIES.
By S. M. I. H.
The position to which God has exalted the family in his plan of work for the earth is so important as to cause the thoughtful mind to marvel. In the first place, it has cost not a little to fit up this earth for a people, and, later on, to redeem it from its traitorous betrayal. The long, long war against the enemy into whose hands the primeval home was betrayed would soon have drained any but a kingdom blessed with inexhaustible resources. And all this outlay of treasure has been for the preservation of the family; for there is the heritage of God, and his only reward for all that he has expended in the earth, both to create and to redeem. Ps. 127: 3. The home is the safety deposit. The family, like an ornament set with jewels, is the chief glory of the crown that is to be worn by the King of the whole earth at his coronation. This being so, we would naturally suppose that God would not have taken any risk in preserving his heritage; but for some reason he chose the risk of utter loss rather than to have all assured by any arbitrary means. And this leads to the conclusion that no arbitrary methods will preserve anything that is worth having. Although such immense interests are depending upon the result, God has given to the head of the family the power to deny his claim, disregard his every right, and shut him out of his reward. But in taking this risk, God has revealed his confidence in the strength of the tie that binds these human fractions into the family unit. He has by this made known his estimate of the measure of the Spirit manifested in parental instinct, which is undoubtedly the strongest manifestation of the power of God in human life, and which has been set apart for a special service in the gospel. The danger that his children might be ruined by following his bad example, and for lack of his safe leading, has constrained many a father to forsake an evil course, and to so consider his relations to God as to bring him to repentance and salvation. Many a mother has been forced to call upon God, and to begin such a life of prayer as led to a true consecration of herself, because of her sense of inability to train her children aright. Here again the children of this world have been wiser in their generation than the children of light; for tradesmen and saloon keepers everywhere recognize the importance, and make much, of the family, and the opportunity that it affords them to make a profit out of any trade. Goods of all sorts bear the family label, even down to liquors and soap; and yet family religion has not come to be a very widely recognized factor. The church, of course, in a way recognizes the family; but when you come to look for signs of the recognition, you will be disappointed. The hymns of the church reveal this lack. A few pages in our own hymn-book are given to “family devotion,” but only four of these hymns make any reference to the family; and one of these, number 549, presupposes that the children are to “remain regardless of Thy word without a hope of heaven.” The same significant omission of family mention is to be found in nearly every hymn-book that I have ever examined, and I have examined a great many. And, strange as it may seem, I have been regarded as guilty of “raising a breeze” more than once by saying that God intends to save us by families; and have been met on the right and on the left with questions and quotations intended to nullify that statement. I have more than once been challenged with every token of belligerence to “prove it,” just as if by such an utterance I had brought them bad news instead of the most precious of all truths. For my part, the strongest consolation that the gospel has for me is not that by its gracious provisions I myself am to have an eternal home in the new earth, but that it is God’s purpose to place my family there with me; that those for whom I longed and suffered, whom I loved so much better than self that if there could not be eternal life enough to go round, I would gladly surrender my share to them, and rejoice in the privilege, are included in the same promise upon which I rest my all of hope. Acts 2: 38, 39. In one instance, even this summer of 1899, I discovered such a condition of things at the conclusion of one study on this subject that I was constrained to say that if it were possible for any people to convince the race of mothers that it was certain that with all their best efforts they must of necessity lose a part of their children by eternal death, it would certainly work to separate those mothers from Christ; for, unless restrained by a rare gift of sanctified intelligence, a mother will follow her child wherever it must go, even if she has to sin to do it. And this is an expression of God in essential motherhood, of the same quality as that which sent Christ down, and which in Christ came himself down, into the depths of eternal death to redeem the family that had been sold to sin, and was reserved for destruction. I EXTRACT the following suggestion from a recent letter, hoping that if it is read by any of our sisters who live in a place where this kind of work is not done, they will make an effort in this direction at once:— In my travels last summer I noticed one thing especially in which we as a people fail. There is a wide field for us to occupy among the traveling public. In depots where change of cars require many to wait for hours, our reading-matter should be put in racks, which should be daily supplied. In the many depots which I have been in, I found only one with a reading-rack for our publications, and that, I am sorry to say, was empty. I believe that a great many persons could be reached with the truth by keeping the reading-racks in our large cities well filled with up-to-date papers. I know of many homes where our literature is wasted after being read by the family. It is certainly too precious for this. I believe these silent messengers bring as many persons into the truth as does the teaching from the desk. If it had not been for one dear sister’s placing the Signs of the Times in my hands, I should be in moral darkness to-day. EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE.
I HAVE been thinking for some time of writing you again, but have not had the opportunity, and the Lord himself seems to be answering the very questions I was thinking of asking you; or rather, he is making my course more plain in the very things I was thinking of asking your advice about. The following has such a true, cheerful ring of faith that I am sure it will help many of our prayer circle who are still anxiously waiting for tokens:— Through faith I have the assurance that my husband will soon be with me in the truth, although as yet he has not taken a step in that direction as I can see; but I have full assurance that God will soon answer my prayers for him. A WOMAN-MINISTRY.
By L. A. Hoopes
SINCE the announcement of the death of Sister S. M. I. Henry, no doubt the query runs in many minds, What shall become of the work of which she was the leader? To all we would say that the work started among the women was of the Lord, and he will see to it that it is carried forward. It would be well to reread carefully the leaflet “A Special Call to Our Women.” In this leaflet you will get the very idea, set forth in the Testimony, which God would have our women everywhere take hold of. It is true that the leader in the movement has fallen at her post of duty, and is resting in the Lord; but her work goes on. The women who have responded to the call have the same ministry that they had while Sister Henry was alive. There is just as much need of their continuing their work as ever. The woman-ministry will continue as long as the work of the gospel continues. There is no reason why the work outlined by Sister Henry should be discontinued, when, in fact, it was getting nicely under way. Hundreds of persons have expressed themselves as having received help, some through the Review, and others by personal letters. This work has been planned for weeks in advance. The department in the REVIEW will be kept up, and the personal correspondence will continue. Miss Durland, who has been closely associated with Sister Henry in her writing, will be continued in the same line. All letters, requests for prayers, and items of experience should be addressed to Miss Grace Durland, 271 West Main St., Battle Creek, Mich., and she will see that proper attention is given such correspondence. There may be other women whose names are not on the lists in Miss Durland’s office, who would like to study and take part in this work. If so, they may be supplied with the leaflets as well as with the study-cards that Sister Henry had prepared. The work with our German sisters will continue as before, Mrs. Marie Beermann, of Santa Rosa, Cal., taking the lead. Mrs. Mary B. Hansen, of Ruthven, Iowa, is taking up this work among the Scandinavians. Mrs. Vesta J. Farnsworth is also taking up this work in the Australasian Union Conference. Since your leader has had to lay down the burden, does it not seem to indicate that God would have you all buckle on the armor a little tighter, and carry on the work to completion? “There certainly should be a larger number of women engaged in the work of ministering to suffering humanity, uplifting, educating them how to believe—simply believe—in Jesus Christ our Saviour.” Although Sister Henry can not speak to you in person, you can receive great benefit from her experience, in the books “Studies in Home and Child Life,” “The Abiding Spirit,” and other of her publications. L. A. HOOPES, Sec. Gen. Conf. WHAT is it that gives to the plainest face
The charm of sweetest beauty?
Not the thought of the duty of happiness,
But the happiness of duty. This is life’s lesson, children dear:
They are blest who learn it early;
For it brightens the darkest day with cheer,
Though fortune’s face be surly. There’s a certain narrow, quiet path
Of daily thinking and living,
Of little deeds of sacrifice,
Of loving and forgiving— Of patience and obedience,
Of gentle speech and action,
Of choosing the right and leaving the wrong,
With a sunny satisfaction; And if we never leave this path
For the thing the world calls pleasure,
There will come to meet us a heavenly joy
Beyond all power to measure. For on this narrow, quiet way
God’s angels move forever,
Waiting to crown, with peace divine,
Our every high endeavor. Yes, this is what sheds on the lowliest life
The glow of the sweetest beauty;
Not the thought of the duty of happiness,
But the happiness of duty. DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES.
By Ellen G. White
Some receive the idea that in order to carry out that separation from the world that the word of God requires, they must be neglectful of their apparel. There is a class of sisters who think they are carrying out the principle of non-conformity to the world by wearing an ordinary sunbonnet, and the same dress worn by them through the week, upon the Sabbath, when appearing in the assembly of the saints to engage in the worship of God. And some men who profess to be Christians view the matter of dress in the same light. These persons assemble with God's people upon the Sabbath, with their clothing dusty and soiled, and even with gaping rents in their garments, which are placed upon their persons in a slovenly manner. This class, if they had an engagement to meet a friend honored by the world, by whom they wished to be especially favored, would exert themselves to appear in his presence with the best apparel that could be obtained; for this friend would feel insulted were they to come into his presence with their hair uncombed, and garments uncleanly and in disorder. Yet these persons think that it is no matter in what dress they appear, or what is the condition of their persons, when they meet upon the Sabbath to worship the great God. They assemble in his house, which is as the audience chamber of the Most High, where heavenly angels are in attendance, with but little respect, or reverence, as their persons and clothing indicate. Their whole appearance typifies the character of such men and women. The favorite theme of this class is pride of dress. Decency, taste, and order they regard as pride. And according to the dress of these mistaken souls will be their conversation, their acts, and their deal. They are careless, and often low in their conversation at their homes, among their brethren, and before the world. The dress and its arrangement upon the person is generally found to be the index of the man or the woman. Those who are careless and untidy in dress are seldom elevated in their conversation, and possess but little refinement of feeling. They sometimes consider oddity and coarseness humility. The followers of Christ are represented by him as the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Without the saving influence of Christians, the world would perish in its own corruption. Look upon the class of professed Christians described, who are careless in their dress and person; loose in their business transactions, as their dress represents; coarse, uncourteous, and rough in their manners; low in their conversation; at the same time regarding these miserable traits as marks of true humility and Christian life. Think you that if our Saviour were upon earth, he would point to them as being the salt of the earth and the light of the world? — No, never! Christians are elevated in their conversation; and although they believe it to be sin to condescend to foolish flattery, they are courteous, kind, and benevolent. Their words are those of sincerity and truth. They are faithful in their deal with their brethren and with the world. In their dress they avoid superfluity and display; but their clothing will be neat, not gaudy, modest, and arranged upon the person with order and taste. Especial care will be taken to dress in a manner that will show a sacred regard for the holy Sabbath and the worship of God. The line of demarkation between such a class and the world will be too plain to be mistaken. The influence of believers would be tenfold greater if men and women who accept the truth, who have been formerly careless and slack in their habits, would be so elevated and sanctified through the truth as to observe habits of neatness, order, and good taste in their dress. Our God is a God of order, and he is not in any degree pleased with distraction, with filthiness, or with sin. Christians should not take pains to make themselves gazingstocks by dressing different from the world. But if, in accordance with their faith and duty in respect to their dressing modestly and healthfully, they find themselves out of fashion, they should not change their dress in order to be like the world. But they should manifest a noble independence, and moral courage to be right, if all the world differs from them. If the world introduces a modest, convenient, and healthful mode of dress, which is in accordance with the Bible, it will not change our relation to God or to the world to adopt such a style of dress. Christians should follow Christ, and conform their dress to God's word. They should shun extremes. They should humbly pursue a straightforward course, irrespective of applause or of censure, and should cling to the right because of its own merits. Florence Nightingale’s Failing Health
LONDON papers say that the health of Florence Nightingale is so enfeebled that she can not live much longer. HEALTH WORK AN ENTERING WEDGE.
By Annie Hemming
If some intelligent, whole-hearted Seventh-day Adventist family would come here and live among the people, doing some of the many little things that must be done in pioneer work, such as visiting the sick, showing the women of their neighbourhood how to make healthful garments; going into the kitchen and teaching them how to make good bread; loaning them papers and books; inviting them to our Sabbath-school; teaching mothers the effect of diet upon the health and morals of their children, — if some one would do this work, it would leave me free to go on with my Bible work, and the results of that work would be much greater. I spoke on the subject of diet several times before the W. C. T. U. One Thursday the president asked me to conduct the mothers’ meeting. The subject for the occasion was Reverence. I changed it to Reverence for the Body; and after talking from some Bible texts, read extracts from “Healthful Living.” The precious light was much appreciated, judging from the remarks of those who shook hands with me at the close of the meeting. The secretary said, “I pity the one who takes charge of the next meeting.” After a Bible reading, one who has recently begun to keep the Sabbath said, “Why did not I know these truths years ago? How different things would now be with me!” Let us each ask ourselves, Am I responsible for others not having had an opportunity to learn these things years ago? “SHE HATH DONE WHAT SHE COULD.”
By M. C. Du Bois
MANY excuse themselves from the Lord’s work because they see so little to do. Their field is so small that they do not think it worth while to cultivate it; so they sit with folded hands, and sigh for something to do. To all such I send the following quarterly report of work done by one sister no longer young, with delicate health. She lives alone, so far as human companionship is concerned. She can not go far from her little home, but she improves every opportunity to do something for the Master. No one goes from her door without a word of love and tender entreaty. This is sent as an encouragement to others. The report is as follows: Letters written, 19; letters received, 10; visits or gospel talks, 180; papers loaned or given away, 82; papers sent by mail, 25; pages of books and tracts loaned or given away, 1,567; pages of books and tracts sold, 2,470. Orders taken and books and periodicals delivered: “Healthful Living,” 7; Gospel of Health, 10; Good Health, 2. Bible readings and cottage meetings, 12, with an average attendance of seven persons. Gospel of Health reading circles held, 10, with an average attendance of six. Samples of health foods distributed, 24. Ordered and distributed Quarter-Centennial number of the Signs of the Times, 25. This is more than some whole churches do. If each person were as earnest, what might not be accomplished in the cause of God in a very short time! This sister seldom allows a person to go from her home without a season of prayer. Often has my heart been made light by a short call upon her. No complaining, no murmuring, comes from her lips, although her health is frail. Let us consecrate ourselves anew to God to improve every opportunity to work in the vineyard as never before. ARE YOU A BEREAN?
By Mrs. W. C. Sisley
MRS. W. C. SISLEY.
(Battle Creek, Mich.) If you are not a Berean, now is your opportunity to become one. Since our missionary society has taken up the study of the book of Daniel, that dear old book which in the past has received much study by many of us, we find new pleasure in again considering the familiar texts. And as we read again, in Dan. 2: 28, how God revealed to Nebuchadnezzar “what shall be in the latter days,” we see that the intelligence concerns us infinitely more than it could anyone else: that it is for us. There is a special meaning in the injunction, “Study the books of Daniel and the Revelation.” Let us study them,—study them with a heart, with a purpose,—and see if our hearts will not burn within us to tell the news to some one else. It is too good to keep. Get your missionary readers to study with you. Visit, write, get others interested whenever possible. Our Berean Circle has no confines. No one is shut out. A circle may be composed of one lone person or of many persons—the more the better. The outline studies in the REVIEW, Instructor, and Missionary Magazine are just the thing to use in connection with the Bible, “Thoughts on Daniel,” etc. May God give us each a proper appreciation of our privileges, and may we be, every one, Bereans indeed. A MEMBER of the Circle writes: “It would be much easier for me to get my lessons if the page and paragraph answering each question were given in connection with the questions.” Of what value is a question that points out the answer so clearly that the one studying may read the answer, or tell the answer, without thinking? The value of any question is measured by the stimulus it gives to thought. First study carefully the pages assigned for the lesson, without reference to the questions. Then take each question, and review all that pertains to the answer. Next boil down the knowledge you have gained concerning that point into a clear, definite statement that will be an answer to the question in your own words. In order to increase your ability to express intelligently what you have learned, tell it to some one, or repeat it to yourself several times. If it be a particularly hard point, write it out, just for your own benefit. Keep thinking of it, and talking of it, until you have mastered it. In this way these studies may be made of far more benefit than if the questions were so arranged that certain sentences or paragraphs could be cited as the direct answers. 1. Why were different portions of the book of Daniel originally written in different languages? 2. When, where, and under what circumstances was the vision of Daniel 8 given? 3. Study the symbol of the ram, and describe the special features of the Medo-Persian kingdom that are revealed by it. 4. Describe the appearance and movements of the goat, and cite the corresponding history of Grecia. 5. What tradition caused the Grecian people to be called “the goat’s people”? 6. Give a concise account of the overthrow of the Persian Empire by Alexander, connecting each point with the prophecy of Dan. 8: 6, 7. 7. Describe the remarkable fulfillment of Dan. 8: 8, fixing in mind particularly the divisions of the empire represented by the four horns. 8. What two applications of the symbol of the little horn are given consideration in the text-book? 9. Try to become so familiar with each of the ten points which denote that the little horn is a symbol of Rome, that you can show the proper application of each expression in Dan. 8: 9-12. 10. How does the vision close? What is meant by the “daily sacrifice” and the “transgression of desolation”? What is the literal rendering of the sentence? What powers are included under each of these heads? 11. Whom does the Lord consider the objects of greatest importance upon earth? 1. Describe the symbols representing Medo-Persia, in the second, seventh, and eighth chapters of Daniel, and review the corresponding characteristics of that kingdom. 2. Review the various symbols used to represent Grecia, in Daniel’s prophecies, pointing out the fitness of each one in portraying that kingdom. 3. What have been the prominent characteristics of Rome, as set forth in the prophecies previously studied? 4. Present in a connected way the history of Rome as foretold in Dan. 8: 9-12. 5. What is meant by the question asked in Dan. 8: 13? 6. Recount the marvelous care of God for his people during the contest between the Persian and Grecian armies. See notes on these studies in the Youth’s Instructor of February 1. FEBRUARY STUDY OF THE FIELD: PART I.
“The Geography of China.”
(Text-book, February Magazine.) The first two studies for February are based upon the article entitled, “The Geography of China.” This has been divided for the benefit of those whose time to devote to the Reading Circle work is limited. We would urge the use of the map in these studies, as it will aid much in locating the different places mentioned. 1. What proportion of the territory of Asia does the Chinese Empire cover? Of the inhabitable globe? 2. Give its area and extent. How is it divided? 3. How is China Proper divided? What can you say of the population and civilization? 4. How does the area of this division compare with that of Great Britain? of the United States? 5. Mention some of the names by which China has been, and is, known. What does Isaiah call it? Give reference. Why has it been called the Celestial Empire? 6. Describe the great wall and the rivers of China. 7. Upon what does China depend almost entirely for transportation? 8. What can you say of the forests? of the wild animals? of the flowers? 9. Tell what you can of the grand canal. 10. Mention some of the products and foods. Do NOT get into the habit of asking to be excused from duty. In olden times some said, “I pray thee have me excused,” and none of those persons were permitted to taste of that supper. “THE Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.” THE TRUE PRINCIPLE.
By Clarence Santee
The true principle in genuine missionary work has none of self in it. It includes the whole world in an even balance. Then the question is only, Where ought the effort to be put forth at this time, and to what extent? When this is settled, though the place may be at the opposite side of the earth, the money needed will be as cheerfully given by the one who has this heaven-born spirit as if it were for work to be done in his own school district. I have feared that although we are willing to listen to lessons on missionary needs and efforts, and feel stirred with the presentation of them, we might still be strangers to the real missionary spirit. The heart of the true missionary life must ever be the desire urging every worker to do his best in the place where the truth has never been heard. It is indeed hard to eliminate self. Why do I wish a special work done near me? I may see the needs there more easily than in other places. Do you not suppose that every Christian sees the needs in his own locality in the same way? But does that make that field the most destitute of all fields? Your own presence there says No. Because if you are in the truth, there is one worker already in that field, while there are still many fields where there are none, and never has been one with “present truth.” But some say, “I will pay so much if a laborer will come here, and it will not cost the society anything!” If there is another field that is more needy, should you not give the same amount for a laborer there? If you would not, why not? If you would settle in another field, where would your money then be most willingly given? Is it always where self can be the most likely to get a part, at least, of the good of what we give? We must pray more fervently for God to give us a willing heart to let self indeed die, not alone in name, but sink into the soil out of sight. Then the power of the Lord can act upon our heart, and the result will be a new life springing from the hidden source, which will bring forth many fold. Christ says, “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” John 12 : 24. We may form resolutions, we may wish to do many things, and wait for opportunities, but unless the seed of love for the lost, and those who may yet be lost, has been planted by the Lord in the heart, it can not grow. The soil may at times be stirred, but it will remain vacant. “It abideth alone.” Then first we must know that he has given his Spirit to us; and having this assurance, we can say to the ones whom the Lord has set over the work: “These are the needs that we see around us; but if there are fields that are more needy, send the workers to those fields, and we will do what we can, and praise the Lord that he is sending the rain to other parts of the earth.” Soon all parts of the earth will have been sown, harvested, garnered. There will not be a soul that will be saddened by the knowledge that his surrender was the cause of some other soul’s being saved in that glad day. He that is the greatest in heaven will be the one who has faithfully served the greatest number. Here, greatness consists in being served by the greatest number; there, he who is greatest serves the greatest number. One is the spirit of self, the other, the Spirit of Christ. The one destroys all others to save self, and in the end meets death. The other becomes a savor of life unto life to all, and in the end gains eternal life. THE THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE: WHAT IS IT?
The hour of God's judgment is come. This is the basic fact of the great threefold message, which forms the complete Third Angel's Message. The Third Angel's Message is therefore the judgment message. This has been already shown to some extent, and will be seen more and more as we advance in the study of the message. This message is to prepare for the judgment all who will be prepared for that crisis of human destiny. Accordingly all who accept this message will enter into the judgment, they will subject themselves to all the tests of the judgment. They will open the whole life to Him who is the Judge; for “God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” Eccl. 12:14. And because God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, all people are exhorted to “fear God, and keep his commandments.” Verse 13. This word in Ecclesiastes is complemented and emphasized in the word of this great threefold message, in which the everlasting gospel is preached to them that dwell on the earth,—to every nation and kindred and tongue and people,—saying, with a loud voice, “Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come. . . . Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” They that have sinned in the law, that is, with a knowledge of the law of God, “shall be judged by the law; in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.” And since now the “hour of his judgment is come,” and since all to whom this message comes will be judged by the law of God, it is certain that all who accept the message will set their whole lives in the light of that law, that every secret thing that is out of harmony with that holy law may be searched out and put away. For that law does reach the most secret things, the very thoughts and intents of the heart. “Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: but I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca [vain fellow], shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.” Matt. 5:21, 22. Therefore with all who accept this message in sincerity, the prayer will constantly be, “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Ps. 139:23, 24. Every one who prays thus, every one who thus opens the life to God, and invites him to search and see if there be any wicked way there,—every such one will be prepared for the crisis of the judgment whenever it may come. For then God will search the heart and purify the life, and make it all that it must be to be holy before God. And every one who does this will be led by the Lord in the way everlasting. And why should it ever be otherwise? And of all times, now, in the hour of his judgment, why should it ever be otherwise? For does not God see all the life anyhow? Are not all things “naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do”? Can anything be hidden from him? Are not our secret sins set in the light of his countenance? Ps. 90:8. Has he not searched us and known us? Does he not know our very thought “afar off,” long before we think it? Since all this is true every moment of every life anyhow, what kind of person must he be who will pass along day after day and year after year as if it were not so at all? And since it is all true every moment of every life, and since we are now in the time when it is especially true in the fact that the hour of his judgment is come, what kind of person would he be who would professedly accept this message that the hour of His judgment is come, and then would pass along a single day as if it were not so? No, no; no such thing as that can ever be, with the people of this judgment message. It comes to them as the judgment message, they accept it as the judgment message, and accordingly they enter hourly into the judgment. Since he has set our secret sins in the light of his countenance, we ourselves will set our secret sins in the light of his countenance. Since he has searched us and known us, we will hourly say unto him, “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me.” Since all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do, we ourselves will constantly hold all things naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Then God will occupy all the life, and will cleanse and purify it by his own presence, making it a fit habitation for himself to dwell in. Then he will clothe us with the garments of his own salvation, and will put upon us the robe of his own righteousness. And then, when the crisis in the judgment as to each individual comes, with Christ thus presenting us faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, the glad word will thrill each soul, He “is righteous, let him be righteous still.” He “is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” Thank the Lord for such a precious message of faithful warning. Praise God for such a glorious message of justification, sanctification, and redemption.