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The White Garment

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 10, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 7.

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The White Garment.

By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

THE following thoughts from Spurgeon contain a most beautiful comparison, and important truths in regard to the believer's position and deportment in this world. We are walking in a filthy and polluted place, and we are commanded to have white garments. Be careful reader with what you come in contact, or with whom you associate, lest your garments become spotted by the world.
He that wears a white garment must mind where he walks when the world's streets are so filthy as they are. He that hath a thousand enemies must take care how he exposes himself. He who hath nothing on earth to assist him toward Heaven, should take care that he goeth not where the earth can help toward hell. O believer, shun, I pray thee, fellowship with this world, for the love of this world is enmity with God. Now some will say that I am ascetic, and wish you to become Puritans. I wish we were Puritans most certainly, but I am no ascetic. I believe the Christian man ought to be the happiest man in the world, and I believe he is too. But I know that this world does not make him happy, it is the next world. I say that the believer has a more sure and certain right to be a happy and a cheerful man than any other man, but if in this world only we had hope, we should be of all men the most miserable, because this world yields no joys to us.—C. H. Spurgeon.