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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 10, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 10.

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REAL RELIGION.

By S. F. Post

A RELIGION that comes to stay is something more than an adventure. It knows there are shoals and quicksands and dangerous breakers to be shunned. It knows that, if port is to be made at last, there must be a steadfast strife with rocks, and waves, and winds. The mere adventurer meets the exigency and looks no further. The true sailor expects the gale and is ready for the tempest; for he knows full well that gale and tempest will come with sweep and roar, until he reaches the desired haven, where storms are hushed and billows break no more. His ocean home is his school. He learns through doing. And so it is in every department of true and genuine life—we learn through doing. It must be the same in religious life. What is called conversion is only enlistment. It is enrolling for services. It is getting ready for drill. A disciple is only a scholar. A scholar is only a learner. We learn through doing. This is the true system of learning. "If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine," says the divine Teacher. Even so it is.—S. F. Post.