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BUY FOR YOURSELVES

In the Midnight Cry for Oct. 10, 1844, we learn how the “virgins” were admonished to “buy” for themselves-to gain an individual experience that would prepare them to meet the Lord. “It requires,” says the writer, “the same faith that led Abraham to offer up Isaac, or Noah to build the ark, or Lot to leave Sodom, or the children of Israel to stand all night waiting for their departure out of Egypt, or for Daniel to go into the lions’ den, or the three Hebrews into the fiery furnace. We have fancied that we were going into the kingdom without such a test of faith, but I am satisfied we are not. This last truth brings such a test, and none will venture upon it but such as dare to be accounted fools, madmen, or anything else that antediluvians, Sodomites, a lukewarm church, or sleeping virgins are disposed to heap upon them. Once more would I cry, ‘Escape for thy life;’ ‘look not behind you;’ ‘remember Lot’s wife.’ LDT 173.2

“How shall we be ready for that day?-Believe God’s truth, and venture out upon it, by strong faith that gives glory to God. We must have the same state of mind that we would have if we knew we were to die upon that day, the same entire consecration to God and deadness to the world.” LDT 174.1