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Unstable Professors

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 2.

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Unstable Professors.

A quaint writer compares a certain class of professors of religion to "sheet-iron stoves heated by shavings." When there is a little reviving in the church, they all at once flame up and become exceedingly warm and zealous. They are ready to chide the pastor and elders for their coldness and want of activity. But, alas! the shavings are soon burned out, and then the heat goes down as rapidly as it went up. They are never seen in the prayer-room, or in spiritual meetings of the church again, until there is another excitement. If such people had not souls of their own to be saved, they would not be worth taking into the church. They encumber it, though they themselves may receive benefit from a connection with it.