Religion Beyond the Meeting-House

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 20, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 16.

Religion Beyond the Meeting-House

The religion which merely performs on Sabbath, and never gets out of the meeting-house, is about the most useless thing under the sun. It is easy for men to get together, warm into happy feeling, talk of millennium and paradise. But to go out of church and be just; to defend Christ by a holy life and a chaste conversation; to be poor for principle; to parry with whisky, and pride, and lust; to reprove the imprudence of money; to stoop down in love to the despised and outcast; to refuse submission to the tyranny and encroachment of mammon,—to do these things takes courage, and marrow, and blood. And these are the things which Christ did.