HOLY LIVING by Free Methodist

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 27, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 21.

HOLY LIVING.

By Free Methodist

CHRISTIANS are directed so to live that others, seeing their good works, may glorify their Father which is in heaven. Christ calls his true followers the "salt of the earth," and adds, "If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?" Too many professed Christians are, to all outward appearance, like the men of the world. This gives the enemies of the cross occasion to speak reproachfully of the cause of Christ. The Saviour is thus "wounded in the house of his friends." More holy living is the pressing need of the age. It is the will of God that with well doing his followers should "put to silence the ignorance of foolish men." A holy life is the strongest argument in favor of Bible religion that possibly can be produced. Such a life is a standing reproof to sin, and an unimpeachable testimony to the power of grace to save and keep. A steady growth will naturally follow. Love for God and Christ will steadily strengthen. Faith will increase, and attachment to the word of God will grow stronger. You will hate sin more, and love holiness better. Compare your present feelings and views with those of your past, and see if there are evidences of steady progress in your Christian life. God has rich things in store for those who, by a holy life, honor his sacred grace. To such, everything is subordinate to the divine will. The "one thing needful" absorbs all their time and powers. They do not suffer themselves to be entangled and captivated by worldly duties to the neglect of spiritual duties. They are assured that if they "seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness," all needed things will be added unto them. "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come."—Free Methodist.