Keep the Heart Pure

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 6, 1879

Keep the Heart Pure.

WHEN the heart is right with God—calm, sweet, peaceful, heavenly—everything goes right. In this happy, joyful composed frame of mind, business men, printers, mechanics, husbandmen, doctors, lawyers, ministers, editors, all, great and small, can accomplish tenfold more, walking in wisdom's ways, God-fearing, strengthened with might in the inner man. A man rich in faith, full of the holy Spirit is a giant—he rises above the world, its temptations, trials, conflicts. He does everything in the spirit of meekness and love. He drinks deep at the living fountain. Then, when he goes forth in the battle field, Satan trembles before him! God smiles graciously on his labor, on things secular and divine, all the day gloriously! Get your souls on fire, richly imbued with the spirit of benevolence; built on the solid Rock! "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly."