p. 130 | The Closet by E. Booth

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 19, 1867

The Closet.

By E. Booth

NEGLECT not your closet. Love it as your life. Flee to it as your safeguard, your joy, your hope. The promises are precious, more beautiful to the Christian heart than fruit of gold. Your Saviour will always meet you there; the Holy Spirit will bless you, and visit you with the salvation of God. Wives and mothers, do you believe this? Fathers and husbands, do you? Mark well that parent just from the closet, with a face shining with holiness as did that of Moses after his interview with God. What purer protection? what nobler breastwork can be thrown around the prison-house of mortal dust? Clothed upon by the spirit of humility and the Christian graces, love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, what trial can disarm? or what foe perplex? The vaunting of the wicked findeth no lodgment there. The soul is hedged about with righteousness, and the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ giveth wisdom and understanding which the world knoweth not of. Brother, sister, do you understand this? Do you know the necessity of regular, stated seasons for closet work? Adhere to it strictly, let no earthly care deprive you of its blessings.

E. Booth.