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Motives to Holiness

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 25, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 20, No. 26.

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Motives to Holiness.

By A. Barnes.

A MAN who has been redeemed by the blood of the Son of God should be pure. He who is an heir of life should be holy. He who is attended by celestial beings, and who is soon—he knows not how soon—to be translated to heaven, should be holy. Are angels my attendants? Then I should walk worthy of their companionship. Am I soon to go and dwell with angels? Then I should be pure. Are these feet soon to tread the court of heaven? Is this tongue soon to unite with heavenly beings in praising God? Are these eyes of mine soon to look on the throne of eternal glory, and on the ascended Redeemer? Then these feet and eyes and lips should be pure and holy; and I should be dead to the world and alive for heaven.—A. Barnes.