Be Earnest | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1875

Be Earnest.

ARE you a member of the church which Christ has purchased with his own blood? Have you tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come? Your very position before the world indicates what duties should rest on your heart and conscience. The church is, or should be, "the light of the world" and "the salt of the earth." A wise man has said, "the Christian is the world's Bible, and the only one which it reads." Believers should be living epistles, read and known of all men. The world is too busy to read books, either divine or human. But they read men who profess godliness critically, and the judgment they form of us, with a proper opportunity, is usually correct. They are not mistaken in supposing that piety is more than mere belief in divine revelation and outward profession. They know that when the heart is right with God, and full of love, the life will show it.—Sabbath Recorder.