ELIZA H. MORTON by Eliza H. Morton

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 15, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Volume 41, Number 49

ELIZA H. MORTON

By Eliza H. Morton

Impressions

IMPRESSIONS come through different agencies, some from God and some from the devil. The only sure way is to test them. Our feelings are no test, neither is the imagination. The “toss-penny” arrangement is no test, for that is nothing but “religious gambling.”

When one is impressed very strongly to do a certain thing or to take a certain course, the only safe thing to do is to wait and pray over it, and thus give God’s Spirit time to direct the mind to some Scriptural thought which may open the way and solve the difficulty.

The Bible rule is, “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Isa. 8: 20.

Any impression which is not in harmony with the teaching of the Bible, we may know is from beneath.