Third Angel's Message: General Conference Bulletins 1893: The Science of Faith and Salvation Explained Simply

by Alonzo T. Jones

A sister told me not long ago that before that time four years ago she had just been lamenting her estate, and wondering how in the world the time was ever going to come for the Lord to come, if He had to wait for His people to get ready to meet Him. For she said the way she had been at it - and she had worked as hard as anybody in this world, she thought - she saw that she was not making pr ogres fast enough to bring the Lord in any kind of reasonable time at all; and she could not make out how the Lord was going to come. She was bothered about it; but she said when the folks came home from Minneapolis and they said, "Why the Lord's righteousness is a gift, we can have the righteousness of Christ as a gift, and we can have it now. "O", said she, "That made me glad; that brought light for then I could see how the Lord could come pretty soon. When He Himself gives us the garment, the clothing, the character, that fits us for the judgment and for the time of trouble, I could then see how He could come just as soon as he wanted to." "And," said she, "it made me glad, and I have been glad ever since." Brethren, I am glad of it too, all the time. Now there is sense in that thing to-day. You know we have all been in that same place. You know the time was when we actually sat down and cried because we could not do well enough to satisfy our own estimate of right doing; and as we were expecting the Lord to come soon, we dreaded the news that it was so near; for how in the world were we going to be ready? Thank the Lord he can get us ready.

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Published June 16, 2016