Cut Loose from the World.
By Mary Ballard
“Wherefore come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord.” How many of us have stepped out from the world, professing to be the followers of the meek and lowly Jesus? Let such of us as have ask ourselves the question, Do our actions correspond with our profession? Multitudes of professing disciples do not separate themselves entirely from the world. They retain too much of its garb, its spirit, and its practice, and thereby rob themselves of the highest joys of our religion, and of power to win others to its influence. Instead of our conforming to the world, we should come out from it entirely, partake more and more of the spirit of Christ, and live nearer and nearer to God, that worldlings may see that in us which shall influence them to seek the Lord. Assuredly it will not be by conforming to the world, but by cutting loose entirely, that we shall be saved. And now, while probation lasts, let us work, and work more earnestly than ever before. Now is the accepted time. “There’s resting by-and-by.” “I love thee, I love thee, and that thou dost know,
But how much I love thee, my actions will show.”