p. 191 | Old Grudges

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 3, 1859

Old Grudges

Old Grudges.—A writer in the Congregational Journal says: "I take this opportunity to say, that, according to my acquaintance and prayerful observation of many of our feeble churches, the greatest cause of decline, and of the withholding of God's blessing, are old grudges among the brethren and sisters, and a destitution of family religion. Old grudges are like old ulcers within the body, unseen except by their effects, wasting away the moral and spiritual life of man, and imparting to it an effluvium that poisons the whole atmosphere of Zion. Those who harbor them never act in character as Christians, for they are always under a more potent influence than that which proceeds from the love of Christ and his cause, yet they take no open stand on the side of the world."