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

are deceiving their own souls and cheating
themselves out of the blessings that others might
secure if they would believe and obey? Probation
still lingers, and it is our privilege to lay hold of the
hope set before us in the gospel. Let us repent and
be converted and forsake our sins, that they may be
blotted out. "Heaven and earth shall pass away: but
My words shall not pass away. And take heed to
yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be
overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and
cares of this life, and so that day come upon you
unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them
that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye
therefore, and pray always, that ye may be
accounted worthy to escape all these things that
shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of
man." (Luke 21:33-36)
Shall the warnings given by Christ be passed
by unheeded? Shall we not make diligent work for
repentance now, while Mercy's gracious voice is
still heard?
"Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour
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