Religion a Necessity.-

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 6, 1868

Religion a Necessity.—

Religion is not merely a duty, it is a necessity. You might as well talk of the duty of breathing, or the duty of having the pulse beat, as to talk of the duty of being religious. It is a duty to breathe, to be sure, and it is a duty to have the pulse beat; but we do not talk of these things as being duties. It is one of the indispensable necessities that we should breathe, and that our pulse should beat. And I regard religious life as not only a duty, but a necessity. You cannot be a man and not be a Christian. And everything that makes you relatively better than your fellow-man is an indication that you are so far on the way toward a Christian manhood.