Honesty by Raymond Franklin Cottrell

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 15, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 15.

Honesty.

By Raymond Franklin Cottrell

SOME flatter themselves that they are the friends of God and on their way to Heaven, while they willingly neglect and evade the payment of their debts. All their profession will amount to nothing in the sight of God. An apostle says, "Having your conversation [commerce, trade, dealing] honest among the Gentiles." The Christian religion has done but very little for that person who has not learned to be honest in dealing. One who will try to avoid the payment of just dues, may talk religion; but it is only a hollow sound, like the "sounding brass or the tinkling cymbal." My brother, "render to all their dues," if you would pass within those gates of pearl where there shall in no wise enter anything that defileth, worketh abomination, or maketh a lie, but they that are written in the Lamb's book of life. See Rev. 21 : 27. R. F. COTTRELL