Love for Souls | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 2, 1862

Love for Souls.

WHAT frivolous excuses we make to our consciences for our neglect of perishing souls! We would consider it too inconvenient and too much trouble to go half across our village, or a dozen blocks in the city, to converse with an impenitent friend about his spiritual danger.

We let a guilty diffidence or irresolution prevent us from speaking a word for Jesus, even when in the immediate society of some thoughtless sinner, though a fitting opportunity offers.

We think it too cold, or too warm, or otherwise too unpleasant for us to go to the prayer-meeting, where wrestling Jacobs assemble to plead for a dying world. What a rebuke to our lukewarmness and our unwillingness to make even trifling self-denial for our Master, is the example of some of the devoted Moravian missionaries!