Article October 12, 1899 Issue

From the Religious Press

I knew a lady who was a Christian, but a very uncomfortable and unhappy Christian, and who made everybody unhappy around her, and had the special peculiarity that, while she kept good enough in her own room, when she went out of the family all the prickles came out, and she was exceedingly disagreeable. She knew it was wrong, but she did not know what to do, and thought she would lose her reason.

One day she had been as cross as she could be all day, and in the evening she met a gentleman friend, who said to her, "If you will only take the sixth chapter of Romans, and kneel down with the open book on the chair before you, and read it verse by verse, and ask the Lord to show you what it means; and if you understand it and believe it, you will get deliverable."

She promised to do so, and when reading in her own chamber that night she came to the eleventh verse: "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin," and she could not understand that. "I am not dead," said she; "it would be telling a falsehood if I said that. When I go out of my room I know that I shall just do the same as I have been doing all day." But the blessed Spirit would not let her rest, and at last she made up her mind to obey this command, and to "reckon" herself, on that authority, "dead to sin."

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