[Songs in the Night - February 28]
Ye are the salt of the earth:...Ye are the light of the world. Matthew 5:13, 14
BEFORE very long we expect that all of the overcoming
members of the body of Christ will be changed,
glorified, and the body completed on the other side
the veil will be without members on this side.
The
lights will have gone and the darkness will hold fuller
sway than ever; the salt will be gone and the corruption
will take hold swiftly, and the result will be the
great time of trouble such as was not since there was
a nation.
Meantime we are to let our lights shine and
thus glorify the Father, whether men heed or forbear
to heed; we are to exercise our salt or preservative influence,
our influence for righteousness and truth,
whether men hear or forbear, though we clearly see
that it is not God's purpose to enlighten the world
through the church in its present humble position.
The matter will test us and prove whether or not we
are worthy to be members of the glorified body of
Christ, which shortly shall shine forth as the sun in
the glory of the Father, and enlighten the whole world
in a manner with which our little lamps of the present
time will in no sense compare. Z'06-75 R3737:1 (Hymn 320)