An Apt Illustration

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 10, 1916

An Apt Illustration

ONE of the missionaries in South Africa drew a very apt lesson from a common experience with the tall grass and fire in that region. He says: “During the dry season the natives burn off the grass. In some places great patches are burned clean, while in other parts some of the stalks of grass remain after the fire has passed through it. This impressed me how it will be with us, and is even now. The fiery trials burn out all that is not alive. The grass that had life in the stem was spared; so all in the church who have the Spirit of Christ in their hearts will be kept alive and remain standing, while those who have lost the Spirit, and are practically dead, will be consumed.”