Chap. 339- "While He May Be Found"

"Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.
Isaiah 55:6.
There is coming, rapidly and surely, an almost universal guilt upon the
inhabitants of the great cities because of the steady increase of determined
wickedness. God has given life to man, in order that through a knowledge of
the Word and by practicing its principles, the human agent may become one with
God, obedient to the divine will. But Satan has been working constantly by many
devisings to bring man into disfavor with God. In the antediluvian world, human
agencies brought in all manner of devisings and ingenious practices to make of no
effect the law of Jehovah. They cast aside His authority, because it interfered with
their schemes. As in the days before the Flood, so now the time is right upon us
when the Lord God must reveal His omnipotent power....
For years Satan has been gaining control of human minds through subtle
sophistries that he has devised to take the place of the truth. In this time of peril,
right doers, in the fear of God, will glorify His name by repeating the words of
David, “It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law.”
Our God is a God of compassion. With long-suffering and tender mercy He
deals with the transgressors of His law. And yet in this our day, when men and
women have so many opportunities for becoming familiar with the divine law as
revealed in Holy Writ, the great Ruler of the universe cannot behold with any
satisfaction the wicked cities, where reign violence and crime....
The forbearance of God has been very great, so great that when we consider the
continuous insult to His holy commandments we marvel. The Omnipotent One has
been exerting a restraining power over His own attributes. But He will certainly
arise to punish the wicked, who so boldly defy the just claims of the decalogue.
Now is a time when there should be a humbling of the heart before God. Let us
seek Him while He is to be found on the pardoning side, and not on the judgment
side. Wake up, my brethren and sisters.... Call upon the Lord while He may be
found."