It is All My Own | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 16, 1864

“It is All My Own.”

A MAN of wealth, living a stranger to religion and its ordinances, was walking and holding this soliloquy: “What a happy man I am! I have an ample fortune, an affectionate wife, and every thing to make me comfortable; and, what is more, I am indebted to no one for it. I have made it myself; I am independent of every one; it is all my own. Many persons are under obligation here and there, but I am not. It is all my own.” At that instant a sudden shower drove him into the nearest church. He went in, and just at that moment the minister arose and read his text: “Ye are not your own; ye are bought with a price.” “What!” said he to himself, “this is a strange doctrine. But it does not apply to me; I am my own, and all I have is my own.” The course of the sermon exposed his obligations to God, and issued in totally revolutionizing his views and feelings.