p. 207 | A Test by Lydia J. Shaw

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 13, 1871

A Test.

By Lydia J. Shaw

If our life be one of daily progress, if we are indeed growing better as we advance in life; if we are more penitent and kind, more meek, humble, and obedient, more diligent and self-denying, more anxious about being what we ought to be, and less anxious about appearing so that we may gain the favor and the applause of the world, but rather seeking to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service, and are transformed by the renewing of our minds, then may we have hope that our religion is not in vain, that it can stand against scorn and contempt without, and also against the foes within, and that we are in some degree at least, unworthy as we are, adorning our profession. Then shall we know that the path we have entered upon is the path of the just, and will be found to be illuminated by that light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day, even that glorious day, when to Christ’s humble and obedient children the Lord shall reveal himself as their everlasting light, and the ransomed of the Lord shall come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads.

LYDIA J. SHAW.