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Seeing Joy in Religion

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 30, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 5.

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Seeing Joy in Religion

“To Turner, the artist, a lady remarked, ‘Mr. Turner, I can not see in nature what you put into your pictures.’ ‘Don’t you wish you could, madam?’ was the artist’s reply. And when the skeptic sneeringly says of one transported by the raptures of Christian faith and hope and love, ‘I can’t see any joy in religion,’ the fitting reply is, ‘Don’t you wish you could?’ Love gives one eagle eyes to pierce heights and depths unscanned by those of sluggish heart; but those who love him best are the very ones who cry, ‘The half was never told,’ of the unsearchable riches in Christ.”