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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 4, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 17, No. 3.

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Holiness of Heart

By L. A. Dodge

From Sister Dodge.

Bro. Smith: I have realized more fully than ever for a few months past, that without holiness of heart no one can enter the kingdom. I have always believed that it was the Christian's privilege to enjoy this blessing, but it looked like such a great thing, and I felt my own unworthiness so much, that it seemed as though I never could attain to it; but I feel to thank the Lord that he has given me different feeling for a few months past. I do not feel myself any more worthy, but Jesus is worthy, and it is his blood that cleanseth from all sin. Then the most unworthy can be cleansed if they only apply to him in a right way.
But it will take all that we have in exchange, and we must not only lay ourselves and all we have on the altar, but we have much to do to keep it there. I feel that I have committed much sin in my life by indulging in vain and trifling conversation, also in letting my thoughts rove to the ends of the earth, and building castles in the air, which I now feel to be very unprofitable and sinful. I have been striving hard to overcome, and I praise God to-day that he has in a great degree given me the victory. I do feel that I have given all for Jesus, and that I am his and he is mine. It was some time after I tried to make this consecration before I could realize that I was accepted, but I did not give up. I kept on praying that if there was anything I had not given up he would cause me to see it, and as I was reading in the Review the article, What Jesus is to me, it came to my mind that I was taking too much care for the things of the world, unnecessary care for things that I could not help, I then went to the Lord and asked him to help me to throw off this burden of care which he did, blessed be his holy name, and I have felt my confidence increasing ever since. O what a blessing it is to feel that confidence in God that we can go to him and ask for the things that we need, and believe that we shall receive them, even as we should of an earthly parent. Dear brethren and sisters, ever let us strive to be in that place where we can feel this holy confidence in God. L. A. Dodge. Stoddard, N. H., Nov. 1860.