p. 12 | HOW TO KEEP FROM SIN

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 46.

HOW TO KEEP FROM SIN.

The Gospels tell us that this is done through the cleansing of the heart by God’s grace working therein. But a certain Mohammedan in India, who had been very wicked and wished to give up his wickedness, thought to keep himself from evil by chaining himself so that he could not move freely. He loaded himself down with 600 pounds of chains, and carried also large iron pins and a heavy iron mallet so that he could be fastened to one spot. But still he sinned; and so he added chain to chain, and then proposed, with his load upon him, to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca. When riding upon the train to Bombay, he was charged partly as a passenger and partly as freight; but the steamship company of which he sought to engage passage from Bombay refused altogether to take him. What has become of him we have not heard. O, that he might learn of the Fountain open for sin and uncleanness!—American Board Almanac, 1895.