Consciences | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 21, 1858

Consciences.

A tender conscience is like the apple of a man's eye—the least dust that gathers into it, affects it. There is no surer and better way to know whether our consciences are dead and stupid, than to observe what impression small sins make upon them; if we are not very careful to avoid all appearance of evil, and to shun whatever looks like sin; if we are not so much troubled at the vanity of our thoughts and words, at the rising up of sinful notions and desires in us, as we have been formerly, we may then conclude that our hearts are hardened, and our consciences are stupifying—for a tender conscience will no more allow of small sins than of great sins.