THE ONLY SAFE COURSE by Sunday School Times

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 16, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 44.

THE ONLY SAFE COURSE.

By Sunday School Times

NATURE abhors a vacuum; and nature will not allow a vacuum to remain such. The only way to get rid of anything that is obnoxious in the world of sense or of spirit is by displacing it. A common saying that has only one side of a truth in it, is, "An empty house is better than a bad tenant." But an empty house will not remain empty. No sooner is it empty, swept, and garnished, after one demon has been cast out of it, than it is liable to be entered for a permanent abode by seven other demons, every one of them livelier than the dismissed one. A good tenant is better than an empty house, as well as better than a bad tenant. And no house of head or of heart need remain empty.

If you would be rid of bad tenants in your head or your heart, you must fill up that house of the soul with tenants who are worth having there. This is the only course of safety for you. By God's grace, this is possible to you.—Sunday School Times.