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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 17, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 11.

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God's “At Home”

By Eva Wesley

THE Sabbath day is God's special “At Home.” Can those persons, therefore, claim to be his friends who habitually refrain from visiting him in his own house on that day, though possessed of both invitation and leisure? Or can those who pay their call as a mere formality think that God has any pleasure in receiving their cold civilities,—an offering of external courtesy only, to the loving Father who says to each of us, “My son, give me thine heart”?
Again: there are others who accept the invitation just in order to criticise the house of their Host,—his servants and his real friends,—and not from any true regard for the Master's person.
Reader, ask yourself whether you would not prefer the absence from your own assemblies of any such so-called friends.—Eva Wesley, in South African Sentinel.