Warm Hearts Wanted

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 1, 1871

Warm Hearts Wanted.

“We need men of hot hearts to tell of the love of Jesus,” was the appeal sent home by some Chinese converts the other day. This is what the church needs—what the world needs—“men of hot hearts.” “I would ye were hot,” is the Master’s cry. If we are to succeed, we must be on fire about it. Dr. Arnot, of Edinburgh, tells of his being at a railway station one day, and wearied of waiting for the train to move, he asked one of the men what the trouble was. “Is there a want of water?” “Plenty of water, sir,” was the prompt reply, “but it’s no bilin’.”

That’s the trouble with the church today. There’s abundance of machinery, the engine is all in order, the train is made up, the men are at their posts—“there’s plenty of water, but it’s no bilin’.” The great motive power is wanting. We need to heap on the fuel of sound doctrine, not shavings of sentiment which make a big blaze only to go out as quickly, but the solid logs of fundamental truth—chunks, if you will. But we need yet more the fire—to be baptized with the Holy Ghost as with fire.—Sel.