Running From Sin

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 15, 1880

We once heard Dr. W. F. Broaddus tell of a little girl who, in the days when the conversion of children was not the subject of as much prayer as now, applied for membership in a Baptist church. "Were you a sinner," asked the old deacon, "before this change of which you now speak?" "Yes, sir," she replied. "Well, are you now a sinner?" "Yes, sir, I feel I am a greater sinner than ever." "Then," continued the deacon, "what change can there be in you?" "I don't know how to explain it," she said; "but I used to be a sinner running after sin, and now I hope I am a sinner running from sin." They received her and for many years she was a bright and shining light. Pray for the conversion of your children, and put your heart into the Sabbath-school; work for it more than you have ever done.—R. Herald.