Sacrificing

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 17, 1857

Sacrificing.—"Gather my saints together unto me," says the Lord by the Psalmist, "those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice." Ps. 1, 5. We are required to sacrifice our substance [Prov. iii, 9] and ourselves; or to be a living sacrifice. Rom. xii, 1. "A sacrifice does not increase, but decrease." In the accounts of sacrifices which we have, it is said that the flames consumed the sacrifice. What should we think of a sacrifice of which it might be said, "And the flames descended, and preyed upon the sacrifice, and it continually increased."