Let Your light Shine by A. S. Hutchins

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 13, 1863

Let Your light Shine.

By A. S. Hutchins

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS ; Has the Lord given us any light in regard to the use of tea, or has he not? If he has, do we do well to put it under a bushel? Are we ashamed of the position that we as a people and organized churches have taken in regard to the use of this herb? If not let us live out our faith, when with tea-drinkers, as well as when with those who drink cold water. But I do not see how this can be done by those who allow themselves to sip a cup or a part of a cup of tea, every time they have tea-drinking company: or that take a "part of a cup" or "have it just colored" or a "little weak tea" when they go where others use it.

Let your light shine. We want straight-forward, thorough-going, whole-hearted Christians, Christians at home and abroad. "Pay thy vows unto the Most High." "Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay."

A. S. HUTCHINS.