“What would you do?” said I. (LDE 42.1) MC VC

“Why,” said he, “I would sell my property and begin to search the Word of God and try to warn the people and get them to prepare for His coming, and I would plead with God that I might be ready to meet Him.” (LDE 42.2) MC VC

Then said I, “If you knew that the Lord was not coming for twenty years, you would live differently?” (LDE 42.3) MC VC

Said he, “I think I would.”... (LDE 42.4) MC VC

How selfish was the expression that he would live a different life if he knew his Lord was to come in ten years! Why, Enoch walked with God 300 years. This is a lesson for us that we shall walk with God every day, and we are not safe unless we are waiting and watching.—Ms 10, 1886. (LDE 42.5) MC VC

The Shortness of Time VC

May the Lord give no rest, day nor night, to those who are now careless and indolent in the cause and work of God. The end is near. This is that which Jesus would have us keep ever before us—the shortness of time.—Letter 97, 1886. (LDE 42.6) MC VC

When we shall stand with the redeemed upon the sea of glass with harps of gold and crowns of glory and before us the unmeasured eternity, we shall then see how short was the waiting period of probation.—Manuscript Releases 10:266 (1886). (LDE 42.7) MC VC