Christ Must Be Formed Within

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 6, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 18.

Christ Must Be Formed Within

Anna de Koven, writing of Hayti, in the Thrice-a-Week World, tells us that, "altho there is a semblance of Christian government and Christian churches, it is well known that every few months the negroes all disappear into the woods, where they practise voodooism, and all their ancient heathen rites, not omitting cannibalism." It is to be hoped that these things are exceptions. But unless Christ be formed within the heart, except he abide there by faith, sooner or later all mere professors of Christianity will return to the beggarly elements of the world. It may not be voodooism or cannibalism, but it is the same selfish worldliness, the same unsaved condition, modified by surrounding circumstances.