The Need of Consecration
[
The Review and Herald, May 31, 1906
.]
Ministers and physicians, in your work you are bearing weighty
responsibilities. Let not your thoughts become cheap or common or
selfish, for want of the grace of Christ. Our preparation for the home
above must be wrought out in this life. The grace of Christ must be
woven into every phase of the character.
I am to say to all who claim to be converted, Are your hearts truly
changed, and are you watching unto prayer, preserving a thoughtful,
consistent course of action, that you may have not a semblance of
religion, but the precious, genuine article? Ministers and physicians,
when you accepted Christ did you experience a deep sense of spiritual
need? How much it means to you who are to be ministers of righteous-
ness, to accept the heavenly gift of light and love and peace and joy in
the Holy Spirit. You are to be imbued with such love for Christ that
you will yield to Him your whole affections, surrendering your life to
Him who gave His life for you. Imbued with the love of Christ, you
are to be constrained to perform acts of unselfish service until such
acts become your life practice. Daily growth into the life of Christ
creates in the soul a heaven of peace; in such a life there is continual
fruit bearing.
Brethren and sisters, we need the reformation that all who are
redeemed must have, through the cleansing of mind and heart from
every taint of sin. In the lives of those who are ransomed by the
blood of Christ, self-sacrifice will constantly appear. Goodness and
righteousness will be seen. The quiet, inward experience will make
the life full of godliness, faith, meekness, patience. This is to be our
daily experience. We are to form characters free from sin—characters
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made righteous in and by the grace of Christ.... Our hearts are to be
cleansed from all impurity in the blood shed to take away sin.
When ministers adorn the doctrine of Christ our Saviour, and
when physicians reveal in words and works, and in their influence,
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