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Reflections on Christian Living

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 17, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 18, No. 16.

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Reflections on Christian Living

The purest church in this world is simply a recruiting station for the true church that is to be; it is merely a provisional arrangement till the perfect church comes.
It is a solemn thing, people say, to die; but it is a vastly more solemn thing to live. It is easier to die a martyr than to live a christian.
When you forgive the man who has pierced your heart, he stands to you in the relation of the sea-worm that perforates the shell of the muscle, which straightway closes the wound with a pearl.