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Tempted at Degrees

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 29, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 17, No. 11.

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Tempted at Degrees

TEMPTED AT DEGREES.—John Newton says, "Satan seldom comes to Christians with great temptations, or with a temptation to commit a great sin. You bring a green log and a candle together, and they are very safe neighbours; but bring a few shavings and set them alight, and then bring a few small sticks and let them take fire, and the log be in the midst of them, and you will soon get rid of your log. And so it is with little sins. You will be startled with the idea of committing a great sin, and so the devil brings you to indulge yourself. 'There is no great harm in this,' 'no great peril in that,' and so, by these little chips, we are first easily lighted up, and at last the green log is burned.
"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation."