The Religious Life as Steady Ascent

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 14, 1876

The Religious Life as Steady Ascent

THE religious life ought not to be like the broken surfaces over which travelers sometimes attempt to pass, where the march is interrupted by deep gorges running downward into the unfathomed darkness of the earth; it should not be like the variable climate sometimes experienced, where between days of genial warmth the thermometer plunges down to zero. There should be no sudden depressions, indeed no depressions whatever; the way should be uniform, and a constant ascent to that which brings nearer the throne of eternal light.