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Seventh-Day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 31, 1884

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 5

Holiness.

MEN pray for holiness as if it were something entirely apart from their every-day life, something that had nothing at all to do with their domestic, social, and business relations. They sing, “Nearer my God to thee,” with glowing fervor, but never think that the prayer can be answered only by the uplifting of their own lives to the plane of God’s requirements. Holiness is not a mere sentiment; not a vague vision of glory over-hanging us like a heavenly cloud; not a rapture or an ecstasy; not something that God sends down to wrap us like a garment in its radiant folds. If being holy means anything at all, it means being true, honest, upright, pure, gentle, patient, kind, and unselfish. We really have no more religion than we get into our every-day practice. Wherein our devotion is higher than our living, it counts for nothing.—S. S. Times.