p. 154 | The Chapel in the Heart

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 1, 1870

The Chapel in the Heart.

IN your retirement, make frequent colloquies; or short discoursings with God and thy own soul. Every return of the heart in these intercourses is a going to him, an appearing in his presence, and in representing him present to thy spirit and to thy necessity. This was long since called, by a spiritual person, “a building to God a chapel in our heart.” It reconciles Martha’s employment with Mary’s devotion, charity

and religion, the necessities of our calling and the employment of devotion; for thus, in the midst of the works of your trade, you may retire into your chapel—the heart—and converse with God by frequent addresses and returns.—Jeremy Taylor.