TAKE HEED HOW YE HEAR

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 11, 1877

TAKE HEED HOW YE HEAR.

A heathen Indian woman once said to a Christian Indian, named Esther, “I often go to your meetings, and always hear something. One Sunday lately the minister exactly described the state of my heart. Indeed, I fully thought he would soon say, There sits a woman who is just what I have said. Do tell me how the minister knows, and who it is that tells him?”

“Oh, yes,” said Esther, “I will tell you. The minister preaches the pure word of God, and that word speaks to the heart. If we are willing to listen to it, God works in our hearts by His Spirit, and shows us that it is spoken to us. Then we see and hear what is our real state; and every one thinks, ‘That was spoken to me!’”