Our position in the world is not what it
should be. We are far from where we should have been had our
Christian experience been in harmony with the light and the opportunities
given us, had we from the beginning constantly pressed onward
and upward. Had we walked in the light that has been given us,
had we followed on to know the Lord, our path would have grown
brighter and brighter. But many of those who have had special
light are so conformed to the world that they can scarcely be
distinguished from worldlings. They not stand forth as God's
peculiar people, chosen and precious. It is difficult to discern
between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not.
In the balances of the sanctuary the Seventh-day
Adventist church is to be weighed. She will be judged by the
privileges and advantages that she has had. If her spiritual
experience does not correspond to the advantages that Christ,
at infinite cost, has bestowed on her, if the blessings conferred
have not qualified her to do the work entrusted to her, on her
will be pronounced the sentence: "Found wanting." By
the light bestowed, the opportunities given, will she be judged.