more prepared

"What has been the state of the community for time past? Has not a film been creeping over the spiritual eyesight? Has not mere socialibilty been taking the place of earnest fellowship? Has not a secularizing tendency been slowly asserting itself and getting the upper hand of the new man in ecclesias? Have not some begun to tire of Bible readings? Has there not been a going back to the false tastes and false standards of the merely intellectual world from which we have been emancipated? God would have His people ready to receive His son. When the cloud and the trouble have passed, every true son and daughter will find themselves more prepared as the result of it, hearts more humble; love more strong; minds more clear; purpose more earnest; spirit more holy; determination more resolute; to count all things as nothing, that we may win Christby a more devoted service to his name, forgetting the things that are behind and pressing forward to those things that lie ahead."