Obedience and Freedom by James White

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 1, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 22.

Obedience and Freedom

By James White

SOME people think of obedience as if it were nothing else than servitude. And it must be admitted that constrained obedience is so. He who obeys by compulsion, wears a chain upon his spirit which continually frets and torments, while it confines him. On the contrary, true obedience, that which has its seat in the affections, and which flows out like the gushing of water, may be said, in a very important sense, to possess not only the nature, but the very essence of freedom. — James White.