Testimonies for the Church, Volume 9 - Ellen G. White

Chapter 74
The Need of Earnest,
Whole-Souled Labor
If our ministers realized how soon the
inhabitants of the world are to be arraigned before
the judgment seat of God, to answer for the deeds
done in the body, how earnestly they would work
together with God to present the truth! How
untiringly they would labor to advance God's cause
in the world, proclaiming in word and deed: "The
end of all things is at hand." (1 Peter 4:7)
"Prepare to meet thy God" is the message we
are everywhere to proclaim. The trumpet is to give
a certain sound. Clearly and distinctly the warning
is to ring out: "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen.
... Come out of her, My people, that ye be not
partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues." (Revelation 18:2-4) The words of this
scripture are to be fulfilled. Soon the last test is to
come to all the inhabitants of the earth. At that time
273