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No Cross, No Crown

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 8, No. 18.

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No Cross, No Crown

No Cross, No Crown.—Coleridge remarked that the temper of the present age inclines to every kind of enervating indulgence. Men appear to think the Christian armor an unnecessary encumbrance; they have no desire to engage in any combat, to undergo any trial; if religion is to be cultivated, it must be one of the fine arts, as an element of Belles Lettres; they forget or despise the saying of Bishop Patrick, that there is no passage to celestial glory but by some cross; that we must suffer with Christ as well as confess him, if we would be with him in paradise.