THAT IS PERFECTLY NATURAL.
By Wm. Ostrander
THAT is perfectly natural. How often is this expression made use of even by those who profess to be followers of Christ. And is it an extravagant conjecture to say that many will come up in the Judgment deceived, on account of their having said and done those things that are perfectly natural? Take that person who is naturally covetous, will he ever be able to enter through the gates into the city of God, unless the Spirit of the Lord eradicates every covetous desire from his heart? And what is true of the covetous person will also be true of the intemperate, jealous, licentious, fault-finding, or eccentric person. It may be that some will feel to take issue with me in regard to the last-named character. I apprehend that when the people of God attain to the high state of oneness described by our Saviour in that memorable prayer that his followers might be one even as he and his Father were one, then those eccentricities and peculiarities now so prominent even among Seventh-day Adventists will all be laid aside. Then indeed shall we be a peculiar, chosen people unto the Lord, separate and distinct from the world, but joined together in a perfect, harmonious union. Wm. Ostrander.