OPENING TO THE ENEMY by Bishop Huntington

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 18, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 20.

OPENING TO THE ENEMY.

By Bishop Huntington

THOSE who indulge fretful feelings, either of anxiety or irritation, know not what an opening they thereby give to the devil in their hearts. "Fret not thyself," says the psalmist, "else shalt thou be moved to do evil." And in entire harmony with this warning of the elder Scriptures is the precept of St. Paul against undue indulgence of anger: "Let not the sun go down upon your wrath, neither give place to the devil." Peace is the sentinel of the soul, which keeps the heart and the mind of the Christian through Christ Jesus. So long as this sentinel is on guard and doing his duty, the castle of the soul is kept secure. But let the sentinel be removed, and the way is opened immediately for an attack upon the fortress.—Bishop Huntington.