Little Sins | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 23, 1871

Little Sins.

There are two ways of coming down from the top of a church steeple—one is to jump down, and the other is to come down by steps; but both will lead you to the bottom. So also there are two ways of going to hell; one is to walk into it with your eyes open—few people do that—the other is to go down by the steps of little sins, and that way, I fear, is only too common. Put up with a few little sins, and you will soon want a few more—even a heathen could say, “Who was content with only one sin?”—and your course will be regularly worse every day. Well did Jeremy Taylor describe the progress of sin in a man: “First it startles him, then it becomes pleasing, then easy, then delightful, then frequent, then habitual, then confirmed. Then the man is impertinent, then obstinate, and then he is damned.” Young reader! The devil only wants to get the wedge of a little allowed sin into your heart, and you will soon be all his own. Never play with fire—never trifle with little sins.—Sel.