OVERCOMING

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · June 3, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 23

We were favored again last Sabbath with a discourse from Bro. White on the subject of overcoming, from Rev. 3:21. The discourse showed the important, and in a certain sense, all-controlling, position occupied in this work by the appetite. Controlled as a servant, it is one of the best gifts to man; but suffered to run with a loose rein and gain the mastery, it is the most merciless of tyrants. It was made forcibly to appear that the lesson taught by God’s dealings with the Israelites was that if God could control their appetites, he could control them in everything.

In the social meeting in the afternoon a brother made the following application of the subject. Said he, We who are actively engaged in our various trades, like to have the persons we meet “talk business.” So in spiritual things this subject of overcoming is talking business; for this is the Christian’s business.