A Thought from Nature by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 23, 1875

A Thought from Nature.

By Uriah Smith

THESE cold wintry days have a lesson for the Christian. How rapidly the heat from our steam boilers and furnaces radiates into the keen frosty air. How necessary to keep up a liberal and constant supply of fuel to maintain the heat. Cut off this supply, and how rapidly all becomes cold.

Brethren, we live in a time when the spiritual thermometer in this world stands but little above zero. As the Saviour said, Because iniquity abounds the love of many waxes cold. These times make tremendous drafts upon our Christian vitality. Unless we keep up a constant supply, in a marvelously short space of time we cool all down. Don't let the fire go out. Keep up constant connection with Heaven. Keep the channel through which we receive fresh supplies from the exhaustless storehouse of God's grace open and free. Then, though all around us congeals, the life heat will animate and quicken us. Though others die, we shall live.

U. S.