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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 1, 1877

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 42.

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Are You a Christian?

WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, the philanthropist, in the early part of his career, thus wrote:—“Often when in the full enjoyment of all that this world could bestow, my conscience told me that, in the true sense of the word, I was not a Christian. I laughed, I sang, I was apparently gay and happy; but the thought would steal across me, What madness is all this, to continue easy in a state in which a sudden call out of the world, would consign me to everlasting death!” This led him to a careful study of the Bible. At length his eyes caught the words, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find.” “Let me,” he said, “test this statement. Any one may do so. I will. God has promised to give his Holy Spirit to them that ask for it. I will go down on my knees, and ask.” He did not pray in vain; his earnest search was rewarded by blessed peace and joy. And he consecrated his life to the glory of God and the welfare of his fellow-men. Reader, how have you settled this question?