Keep the Heart Pure

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 30, 1873

Keep the Heart Pure.

WHEN the heart is right with God—calm, sweet, peaceful, heavenly—everything goes right. In this happy, joyful composed frame of mind, business men, printers, mechanics, husbandmen, doctors, lawyers, minister, editors, all, great and small, can accomplish tenfold more, walking in wisdom’s ways, God-fearing, strengthened with might in the inner man. A man rich in faith, full of the holy Spirit, is a giant—he rises above the world, its temptation, trials, conflicts. He does everything in the spirit of meekness and love. Some holy men spend hours in the morning feasting on angel’s food. They drink deeply at the living fountain. Then, when they go forth in the battle-field, Satan trembles before them! God smiles graciously on their labors, on things secular and divine, all the day gloriously! Get your souls on fire, richly imbued with the spirit of benevolence, built on the solid Rock! “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”