Difference Between Christians and Worldlings by Dudley Marvin Canright

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 5, 1866

Difference Between Christians and Worldlings.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

MANIFESTLY Christians ought to be far superior to worldlings in every virtue. They ought to be more refined and elevated in their tastes and feelings, more gentle and obliging in their conduct and words, and more neat and clean in their dress and habits. A short time ago I witnessed a couple of incidents which strikingly illustrated the difference between the two classes.

A town-meeting was held in a school-house where I was lecturing. The next day I went and took a view of the house. What a sight! Dirt, sticks, whittlings, papers, tobacco-juice and quids were strewn in great profusion all over the floor and seats. This was the result of one day's meeting.

Again, I attended a Conference meeting of Christian men, in Battle Creek, Mich., which lasted three days. At the close of the meeting not a stick, whittling, tobacco-quid, nor sign of it, nor hardly a bit of paper was to be seen on the floor. A few minutes' work with the broom, and the house was in as good order as before. These men had learned to cleanse themselves from all filthiness of the flesh. True religion always makes men better in every station in life.

D. M. CANRIGHT.