p. 123 | Cleaving to Christ by Rev. William Arnet

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 19, 1865

Cleaving to Christ.

By Rev. William Arnet

I HAVE seen a heavy piece of solid iron hanging on another, not welded, not linked, not glued to the spot, and yet it cleaved with such tenacity as to bear not only its own weight, but mine too, if I chose to seize and hang upon it.—A wire charged with an electric current, is in contact with its mass, and hence its adhesion. Cut that wire through, or remove it by a hair's breadth, and the piece of iron drops dead to the ground, like any other unsupported weight.

A stream of life from the Lord, brought into contact with a human spirit, keeps the spirit cleaving to the Lord so firmly, that no power on earth or hell can wrench the two assunder. From Christ, the mysterious life-stream flows, through the being of a disciple it spreads, and to the Lord it returns again. In that circle the feeblest Christian is held safely. But if the circle be broken, the dependent spirit instantly drops off.—Rev. William Arnet.