Christ in Daily Life

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 29, 1864

Christ in Daily Life.

WHAT we most need is Christ in our daily experience—in the example and testimony of common lives; not Christ alone in the far off glory of the Heavens, in the history of world-worshiped saints and martyrs, or altogether in the record of devoted ministers and missionaries. But we want him where men sow and reap, where they labor in the factory, the mine, the counting-house, the camp or the court-room; where women guide the house, and sit by the cradle; where they toil with the needle, the pen, or the text-book; where they entertain society, or wear life away at the bed of sickness. And we want the witness of such as walk with Christ, that his guidance lightens care, and sweetens pleasure, and brings to pain a divine consolation. Their little testimony, ingeniously, perhaps unconsciously given, is not in vain; we feel its influence, and are drawn Christ ward, by its sweet attraction.