p. 99 | The Hidden Life

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 14, 1871

The Hidden Life

You have seen the invigorating influence of a human passion. You have observed how love will make a timid woman courageous; how it gives rush and flow to a desultory, purposeless man, to have within himself the consciousness of a virtuous affection, for the sake of which it is worth while to be brave, and necessary to be pure. You have said sometimes of one and another among your friends, “I can scarcely recognize in him the same man,” and you have found the explanation afterwards in some secret kindling on the altar of his soul, of a fire of human devotion. So is it in that one higher region still—that hidden life, that death to the world, of which St. Paul tells.