THE HIGHER LIFE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 31, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 44.

THE HIGHER LIFE.

THE higher life is not a life on wings. It is not so much concerned with soaring as with sowing. Neither is it life on a dizzy pinnacle above the reach of the tempter. Neither the second blessing nor the fortieth comes in the form of a paid-up insurance policy. We never get to a point of safety above that of the householder who can not completely shut up his house, and who must, therefore, be always on the watch. We can keep the doors of our mouths locked most of the time, but it is needful that the ear-gates and the eye-windows stand open a large part of the day. We can not keep the tempter from approaching us, wherever we may be; and in these days of unspeakable pictures, which will meet the eye at every turn, it is hardly possible to keep him from slipping in at the window now and then, and sometimes he runs in at one of the gates before we can shut them. There is no time in life when the soul of man can turn the key and safely lie down to slumber. We are on the watch till the Master comes.—Selected.