Shut Thy Door

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Aug 21, 1913

A MAN was standing in a telephone booth, trying to receive an important message, but had great difficulty in hearing. He kept saying, "I can't hear." The man at the other end of the line said, after a while, "If you will shut the door, you can hear." When the door had been closed, all the noises from the street were shut out.

Many a Christian is going through life with spiritual weakness and worry because he does not more frequently close the door that silences for a time the din of the world. The "shut door" is one condition of the peculiar blessing of God.—Selected.