The True Christian

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 23, 1872

The True Christian.

REAL religion is a living principle. Any one may make a show, and be called a Christian, and unite himself to a sect, and be admired; but for a man to enter into the sanctuary to hold secret communication with God, to retire into his closet and transact all his affairs with an unseen Saviour, to walk with God like Enoch, yet to smite upon his breast in the language of the publican, having no confidence in the flesh, and triumphing only in Christ Jesus—these are the life and acts of a new creature.—Cecil.

WE would make life beautiful indeed if we were more considerate of others—more benevolent and less hasty in our impulses; more just and discriminating; more willing to give joy, and to bear, in charity, “the faults we see.”