Leaving First Love by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 7, 1884

Leaving First Love

By Editor

THE moral quality of that kind of coldness and listlessness, which turns away one's heart from fervor and one's hands from duty, cannot be concealed by any form of soft or extenuating words. We sometimes say of a young convert, who began well for a few years, but then lapsed from his zeal, "He has lost his early love, poor fellow!" But the Bible does not say "lost," it speaks out plainly; it says "left," in order to indicate willfulness in the dereliction, and fix responsibility for the shame: "I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love." Rev. 2:4.—Ed.