The Christian Life by John De Witt

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 13, 1879

The Christian Life.

By John De Witt

THE religion of the moralist is of the world, and so differs from that of the Pharisee. It is also in the world, and so differs from that of the monk. The Pharisee says, "I will hold the two lives entirely separate." The monk says, "I will perform the duties of the religious life alone." The moralist says, "I will perform those of the daily life alone." The Christian says, "While the religious life and the worldly life do not exclude each other, the most important is the religious life; and it is only rightly conducted when it elevates the conduct of the daily life;" when with the apostle it can say, "The life that I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the son of God." He whose life is thus conducted lives his daily life by his religious life. The latter guides the former. His faith determines his daily walk. His Christianity furnishes both the purpose and conduct of his whole course of action.—John De Witt.