A Touchstone

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 8, 1864

A TOUCHSTONE.—By this one mark you may know whether the sins of your lives, be they great or small, are certain proofs of an unconverted heart or not. In every truly converted man, the main bent of his heart and life is against sin, and his cheif desire and endeavor are to destroy it. In others it is not so. Whatever kind of sinning therefore is inconsistent with such a desire and endeavor, will prove that man to be unconverted and graceless who commits it. How far a man’s sin is with or against the predominant bent of his own heart and life, he may discern by diligent observation.