AN IMPORTANT QUESTION

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 25, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 12.

AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.

THE question whether we have a saving interest in Christ is the question whether we love him more than any temporal object. If we are destitute of this kind of love, we have no love of Christ that is of any practical value. As he will not accept the second place in our hearts, we must give him the first or we can have no part in his salvation. An eloquent writer has well expressed this truth in the following words: “Deeper than the love of home, deeper than the love of kindred, deeper than the love of rest and recreation, deeper than the love of life, is the love of Jesus.” We must have that kind of love that will incline us to hold all of these interests strictly subordinate to our regard for Christ, or we shall not be owned of him as his disciples in the great day.—National Presbyterian.