Book of Conscience

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 21, 1857

Book of Conscience.

Wouldst thou know whether thy name be written in the book of life? Why then read what thou hast written in the book of conscience. Thou needst not ask, who shall ascend up into heaven, to search the records of eternity; thou mayest but descend down into thine own heart, and there read what thou art, and what thou shalt be. Though God's book of providence be closed and kept above with God, yet thy book of conscience is open, and kept below in thy very bosom; and what thou writest here, thou shalt be sure to read there. If I write nothing in this book but the black lines of sin, I shall find nothing in God's book but the red lines of condemnation: but, if I write God's words in the book of conscience, I may be sure God has written my name in the book of life. At the great day of judgment, when all books shall be opened, there I shall either read the sweetest or the sharpest lines; I will therefore so write here, that I may not be ashamed to read hereafter.