p. 707 | DIVERTED OR CONVERTED

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 24, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 45.

DIVERTED OR CONVERTED.

SOME people mistake the one for the other. Those, for example, who turn for a season from selfish pursuits and pleasures, but after a few weeks or months are found back in the old ways again. The world, looking upon them, says, complacently, "They are going my way, after all. I thought they had taken a different track."

These people were diverted, not converted. They were turned aside from their sins for a time, but were not turned away from them. He who only turns half around under some special pressure of gospel truth can hardly be called a follower of Christ. With one eye upon the world and the other upon the cross, he finds little real pleasure in either. Diverted from the world by thoughts of the kingdom of Heaven, and yet loving the world too well to be converted, or turned quite away from it; trying to hold Christ with one hand and sin with the other, like the young man in the story of old, he goes away sorrowful.—Golden Rule.