Are You in God’s Order?
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BY VIANNAH CRITES.
As I look out on this world with its gross deceptions and manifold delusions my very soul has gone out in behalf of the perishing, with hopes and prayer that many may be recovered out of the Devil’s snare. How important it is that those who profess to enjoy salvation in this glorious evening light should walk circumspectively before God and man, but I fear many who make a high profession have not the real fear of God before their eyes that they should have, in order that God may receive glory all the time from day to day and month to month and year to year. Some pray when they have nothing else to do, but such prayers are very dull. Others only read the Bible when they run out of everything else to read, and it is then a very dull thing to them. Some go out preaching when they cannot find work that suits them, and then when they can get at their old work they leave off their preaching and engage in many transactions not in harmony with the gospel, and thereby cause disaster and souls to stumble. Again we see some who imagine God wants them to go out and preach, and because he does not open the way they do much grumbling and fault finding, when if God was to open the way for them to go on such a mission they would only be a stumbling-block. I have seen those who, after reading what physicians and eminent men and women have said on the evils of corset-wearing, and especially what has come from the ministry, yet some still persist in wearing them and imagine all the affliction God has let come upon them was because they could not go and work more for him, when the fact is God was only trying to show them their duty before they were fit to go.
Now I have sympathy for all those who have not really had the light on all the evils that attend these things, but I cannot think there are many that have not felt the evil that ever tried to wear one. They need not expect much from the hand of the Lord until they walk in the light already given. And again, dear souls, you that are in bondage to the tobacco habit and do not feel very comfortable in the society of God’s holy children, that have cleansed themselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, do you think you can get to heaven without giving up this filthy habit. The Lord tells us he will come quickly. He that is unjust let him be unjust still; and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is righteous let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still. Dear soul; if you do not enjoy the company of the redeemed here, you would not if you was to get to heaven. This is the dressing room, the giving up place of all sin and filthy habits, if you want to enjoy heaven. God wants us to get cleaned up here and let our light shine. We should have our clothes made neat, and to fit us as near as we can, and live pure, holy lives.
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