Earnest Warnings -- Living power must attend the message of Christ's second appearing. We must not rest until we see many souls converted to the blessed hope of the Lord's return. In the days of the apostles the message that they bore wrought a real work, turning souls from idols to serve the living God. The work to be done today is just as real, and the truth is just as much truth; only we are to give the message with as much more earnestness as the coming of the Lord is nearer. The message for this time is positive, simple, and of the deepest importance. We must act like men and women who believe it. Waiting, watching, working, praying, warning the
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world-- this is our work.-- RH Nov. 13, 1913.
Practical Christian Truth -- The truths of prophecy are bound up together, and as we study them, they form a beautiful cluster of practical Christian truth. All the discourses that we give are plainly to reveal that we are waiting, working, and praying for the coming of the Son of God. His coming is our hope. This hope is to be bound up with all our words and works, with all our associations and relationships.-- Ev 220.
The Second Coming, a Constant Theme -- The second coming of the Son of man is
to be the wonderful theme kept before the people. Here is a subject that should
not be left out of our discourses. Eternal realities must be kept before the
mind's eye, and the attractions of the world will appear as they are, altogether
profitless as vanity. What are we to do with the world's vanities, its praises,
its riches, its honours, or its enjoyments?-- Ev 220.