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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 16, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 22.

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Living Christians.

By Addie E. Welch

Some people cannot read the Bible, and many that can, do not; but all men can and will read a Christian; for a Christian is known and read of all men. It has ever been a Christian's duty to be heavenly-minded and pure in heart; but we now have reached the time when we believe the day of the Lord is about to be ushered in. What manner of persons, then, ought we to be? We profess to believe these things, and men read our professions, and our lives also, and then compare the two. Do they read anything in our lives that is out of harmony with the spirit of this great message? Do our lives correspond with what we profess? Where our treasure is, there will our heart be also. If we are heavenly-minded this principle will shine out; but if we are worldly-minded, it will be a task to live a Christian long at a time; and even a garb of hypocrisy will prove but an imperfect covering.
Many will read us; and therefore we must let our light so shine before men that they may see our good works and glorify our Father which is in Heaven.
Addie E. Welch.
Somerset Co., Maine.