Bible Salt | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 13, 1870

Bible Salt.

The Rev. John Hall, D. D., in the last number of the American Messenger, has the following valuable remarks on, “Salt is Good.” They have the true Christian savor. He says:

“Salt is good.” See that young Christian girl, sweetening the life of her family, softening the hard language of her father when he is “bitter” against his wife, keeping good influences over the younger brothers and sisters, and by her love and gentleness making their home happy, and keeping one strong plea for Christ and religion constantly before their minds.

“Salt is good.” See that salesman in the store, truthful in an air of falsehood, sober in his language where all the rest swear, and pure in his life when all else is vile; laughed at sometimes by the rest, when they are in a merry mood, but always sent for when they are sick and dying.

“Salt is good.” See that little company in the village that has just grown up around “the works,” gathering on Sabbath for worship, collecting the children for Sabbath-school, drawing in the parents, one now and one again, living down the ungodliness of those roving and reckless workmen, and conquering the place for religion and virtue.

The Lord give us more and more of this salt in homes, and villages, and cities; for it is the one healing element cast “into the spring of the waters”—as with Elisha at Jericho—that will keep away barrenness and death.