THE EVER WARFARE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jan 24, 1906

THE EVER WARFARE.

THERE is a proper warfare of the spirit against the flesh. Paul was engaged in it, and his epistles are full of the record of it. It is the battle between the upward strivings and the downward drawings of the soul. So long as we are here in the world, this conflict will be waged. There are some who claim to have passed beyond it, but the claim raises suspicions. All the holiest men have been the men most keenly sensitive to their moral and spiritual peril, and most aware of the terrible reality of the warfare which they must wage until life is done. All earnest men are wrestlers, as Paul was, with spiritual foes, foes who find their footing in what he called the flesh, meaning thereby, as metaphor, the baser possibilities of the soul. —Sunday-School Times.