A Momentous Question

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 18, 1865

A Momentous Question.

A RECENT convert from the most virulent infidelity told me that in his sober moments he had been often affected by the words of one of their female lecturers on her death-bed. Her friends had been urging her to hold on to the last, when the dying woman said: 'Yes; I have no objection to holding on, but will you tell me what I am to hold on by?' Ah, there is the fatal want. Infidelity gives nothing to hold on by—no mighty arm to lean on—no gentle hand to grasp,—no loving bosom on which to rest an aching head—no 'mouth most sweet' dropping its honeyed words of comfort, and sweetening the bitterness of death with a Heaven begun. No, no, infidelity has none of these, and offers no substitute for them. It mocks the needy soul by giving it simply nothing! Alas, that man can be found so insanely wicked as actually to prefer the cold and cheerless delusion to all the joyous realities of a heavenly Father's love.—Family Treasury.