HEART-POWER

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 15, 1877

Heart-power is of all others the most beneficent. Physical energy subdues matter, but the soul triumphs by the force of its affections over the mightiest of obstacles. The heart of Christ is the seat and centre of his supremacy over so many millions of our race. He is not ranked as a genius, nor as an orator. He disdained the boasted charms of philosophy. Yet his speech distilled as the dew, and his words have an inexhaustible power, which neither dullness, nor ignorance, nor depravity, nor unbelief can resist. If we seek to find the reason of their power, we shall find it in that love which vitalizes all the truth they express. Here, then, lies the secret of Christian usefulness. Ministers of the gospel, Sabbath-school teachers, parents, and all who desire to impart the gospel, must let it run through the fervid affections of the heart. Cold, intellectual instruction may have its way in the schools, and in those discussions which relate to general public affairs; but in the kingdom of Heaven the heart is master. They who put most of heart into their work have most success, and reap the largest satisfactions. This is a truth too often forgotten in these days, when so much stress is laid on methods.—Christian at Work.