Daniel 12:13
The closing days of another year are upon us, and that in the last moments of the history of the church on earth. One great event, which is our glad future and hope, would seal the doom for ever of thousands around us. Do we realize it? Are we ready for it? The old year is fast dying out, and will soon be numbered with the past. The rapid flight of time suggests {defective copy here} searchings for us all. For us who {defective copy} of God, the word is loud and clear, “It is high time to awake out of sleep.” Alas! how drowsy and insensible to the true state of things are so many of us; the condition of the church God and the world at large seems so little to affect us. Alas! what weakness and feebleness in the former, and what recklessness and wickedness in the latter. Let us awake and arise and shake ourselves from the dust.
The bold and daring rejection of the truth is one of those dials upon which we may read hour of the world’s age, and the lengthening shadows upon its face seem to intimate that the day is drawing towards a close. The most fitting words to describe the present moment are the heart-breaking and solemn utterance of the prophet: “For truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth”; and as the loyal and faithful heart enters into this, it responds with all affection to the call which reaches into its inmost depths: “But that which ye have, hold fast till I come.”
May the heart of all my readers respond to this, in ready affection and true-hearted devotion to our only Master and Lord.