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Vital Religion

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 26, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 12, No. 15.

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Vital Religion

VITAL RELIGION.—It is a great deal easier to repeat "a whole liturgy of prayers" than to govern one's temper, overcome a bad habit, and resist the constantly recurring temptations to self-indulgence. It is a great deal easier to feel good than to be good. It is easier to get up an incoherent fervor of mind than calmly and steadily to pursue the even way of our ordinary duties. To go to church and be excited by solemn music, and to lose one's self in vague emotions—how much more agreeable is this than to stay at home, and amidst the hurry and disorder of daily returning trials, to maintain a quiet and cheerful mind?