Signs of the Times, Book 1 - Ellen G. White

November 22, 1883
A Solemn Appeal
The Lincoln, Nebraska, State Journal kept a reporter in the field every
day during the camp-meeting of seventh-day adventists at crete. His reports
were very favorable, even complimentary, and the synopses of discourses
quite liberal. From the Journal report of a discourse by Mrs. E. G. white, we
take the following:
We are standing as a brand in the burning. What a position we are in!
The whole world is in darkness. Deception is prevalent everywhere; and here
is the remnant church taking its stand on an important truth. I wrote these
great truths out in my fourth volume, I felt that we are not ready and I said to
my son, I must go. He argued that I ought not, when my health was so poor,
but I felt that I must go and talk once more at our meetings. If I could only
tell you how my heart is stirred when I feel that the time is at hand, and so
many are unprepared. We have no time to devote to frivolity, to backsliding
from God. We must be preparing to walk through time and eternity. The
work is going on in the sanctuary, yet how sensual, how sleepy, how
indifferent we are. How much our young men and our young women could
do! What rich experience they could have! It seems sometimes as if there
were a paralysis upon our people; that they do not realize how near they are
to the end of the earth. We need more standard-bearers. We need more
missionaries to go forth into the world.
We feel at this hour we ought to understand our position in history and
prophecy. We want to know if you understand this as well as you do your
wheat-fields and your cattle and your hogs; whether you are purifying
yourselves line upon line and precept upon precept. So many look upon
confession of Christ as a step down. But O, what could be a greater privilege
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