p. 404 | The Perseverance of the Saints

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 9, 1880

The Perseverance of the Saints

"Do you believe in the Perseverance of the Saints, brother?" asked one of the council called for Mr. Beecher's installation over Plymouth Church. "Well," he answered, "I was brought up to believe that doctrine. But after I went West, and saw how eastern Christians left their religion behind when they moved out there, I began to have my doubts!" Is that your style of perseverance? A man bearing the Christian name, who can sit in his self-indulgence, and hear the church bell pleading in vain with one call after another, till at last it stops in despair—had better re-examine the ground of his hope.