Heart Religion | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 22, 1858

Heart Religion.

NOTHING in the world will answer a man's purpose, when he comes down to a death-bed, but heartfelt religion; a clear witness of the Spirit; a full assurance that the Redeemer liveth. Job had the right experience to suffer and to die by—" I know that my Redeemer liveth."

For this knowledge a dying man would give an empire. All other knowledge to him seems worth-less, and he counts it as dross.

How careful we ought to be, while engaged in the busy cares of life, that we lose not this heartfelt religion, this personal interest in Christ, this lively evidence of our adoption into his family.

That many do lose this simple heartfelt religion is quite certain. They pass years in a state of doubt and partial darkness; and when called to die, they feel unprepared. Death has not lost its sting. They shrink back, and beg for time to complete their preparation.

Dear reader, do you, to-day, enjoy that sweet, humbling, joyous consciousness of your interest, which giveth you the victory ?