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Don't Live on Feeling

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 6, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 46.

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Don't Live on Feeling.

It may be helpful to some humble disciple who is disturbed because he cannot keep his religious feelings up to his ideal of what they should be, to be told that the distinguished Wilbur Fisk was troubled in the same way in the earlier years of his Christian life.
Having opened his heart to the saintly Timothy Merritt, of precious memory, this gentleman said to him, “I think you make a christ of your feelings. You do not expect that Christ will bless you unless you have a peculiar kind of feelings. But Christ does not bless you because you have peculiar feelings, but because you believe in him. Make a christ of nothing but Christ.”
These wise words are “apples of gold.” The reader would do well to let them direct his mental eye away from his own perturbed heart up to the face of the ever-living Christ.—Ex.