General Conference Bulletin, vol. 5

MAKE HASTE

“Thy children shall make haste.” I believe that this is just what God desires us to do at this time. In the 54th of Isaiah we read. “And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord.” He desires His true, loyal children to make haste. “The ?? business requires haste.” Last night we were told very vividly, forcibly, and truly that the work of God is to be finished in this generation. If this work be accomplished in this generation, we must make haste; for the persons who compose this generation,—those gray-headed men of seventy and upwards,—are rapidly dropping one by one. Brethren, shall we not make haste? Shall we not allow the influence of the Holy Spirit so to impress us with the needs of the present hour, the solemnity of the times in which we are living? GCB March 30, 1903, page 13.4

Now look here. There are many problems that are going to confront this Conference, difficult, problems, problems that no human mind is able to grasp; and there is, I believe, but one solution of the difficulties in which we find ourselves, and that is to make haste to give the third angel’s message as it was portrayed to us last night. We who believe that the coming of the Lord and Master is near, even at the doors, should rally around the standard, and begin an aggressive campaign along this line, that shall not end till the Lord is revealed in the clouds of heavens. “Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.” When? Are we going to drive them out? Shall we take up the sword and drive them out?—No. We are to make the separation between God’s true, loyal people that believe the third angel’s message, clear to the very bottom of their hearts and souls, the message that was once delivered to the saints in the beginning the people, I say, that the people that believe that, shall gather together and start an aggressive campaign to finish the work God has given us in this generation; and then God says, “Thy destroyers that made thee waste, shall go forth.” Here is a statement I want to read to you from Vol. 5 of the “Testimonies,” right along that line. It says: “It may be that the destroyers are already training under the hand of Satan, and only waiting the departure of a few more standard-bearers to take their places, and with the voice of false prophecy cry, Peace, peace, when the Lord hath not spoken peace. I seldom weep, but now I find my eyes blinded with tears; they are falling upon my paper as I write. It may be that erelong all prophesyings among us will be at an end, and the voice which has stirred the people may no longer disturb their carnal slumbers.” Just think of it, brethren! Think of such a condition. Isn’t it time, high time, that we made haste to give the message, before this condition of things comes to pass? GCB March 30, 1903, page 13.5

Here is another verse on this subject. I am wonderfully interested in this, and I have read it hundreds of times, but I never was so much interested as I have been in the last few weeks. “Lift up thine eyes, round about, and behold, all these gather themselves together, and come to thee.” And I would to God that the mist and fog that beclouds our spiritual vision could be removed. I was impressed with the figure Sister White used the other morning of the eagle screaming and flying to the right and to the left, and forward and backward, and unable to get out of the fog; but it could not do it, and all at once it turned, and it screamed and bounded away into the air, above the fog. Brethren, I believe that we have come to a time when we want to make a desperate effort and rise above the fog, and, when we rise above the fog, and lift up our eyes, it says. “As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely cloths thee with them all as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.” GCB March 30, 1903, page 13.6