Christianity

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1880

CHRISTIANITY.

There is to be found in the religious world not only a solid, substantial, consistent, and devoted Christianity, but there is to be found also what may be termed a pretty genteel sort of evangelicalism, which too well combines with the luxurious ease of the world and flesh. Such religion will not prepare the soul for sickness, death, and eternity. It will, at best, leave it a prey to most fearful doubts, or, still more to be feared, to the delusions of false peace. The way that leads to eternal life is much more narrow than many of our modern professors are aware of. The gate is too straight to allow all their trifling, and self-will, and fastidiousness, and carnal-mindedness, to press through it. The Gospel is a system of self-denial; its dictates teach us to strip ourselves that we may clothe others; they leave us hungry that we may have wherewith to feed others, and send us bare-footed among the thorns of the world, rather than silver-shod, with mincing steps, to walk at our ease amongst its snares.—From Richmond's Letters.