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Religious Belief

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 25, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 9, No. 8.

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Religious Belief.

I ENVY no quality of mind or intellect in others, be it genius, power, wit, or fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful, to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing. For it makes life a discipline of goodness; creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish; and throws over the decay, the destruction, of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity; makes an instrument of fortune, and shame the ladder of ascent to paradise; and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths, the gardens of the blest, the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the skeptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair.—Sir Humphrey Davy.
It is easy to exclude the noon-tide light by closing the eyes; and it is easy to resist the clearest truth, by hardening the heart against it.—Keith.
SOLID devotions resemble the rivers which run under the earth, they steal from the eyes of the world to seek the eyes of God; and it often happens, that those of whom we speak least on earth, are best known in Heaven.—Caussin.