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not care whether I kept your commandments or not?' Such a dodge will be a poor refuge then. Will we fare any better if we dodge the commandments, by asking for some other token?" I met a very estimable lady today, and she was going by her inner consciousness. If we have inner consciousness, or any other consciousness that is an infallible guide, the Bible is not at all needed; its study would be a waste of time. All we would have to do would be consult our inner consciousness. God's word says that the seventh day is the Sabbath, and we ask our inner consciousness if that is so; and if we go according to our inner consciousness, we are simply exalting our own notions above the Word of the living God, and that is all. I find so many trying the token-and-heart dodge that I feel that I would not be doing my readers justice if I did not cite them to a scripture or two on the heart question:
"The prophet that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? Saith the Lord." Jer. 23: 28.
Does God's word say that the seventh day is the Sabbath? Yes. Is it then wheat? Yes. Brethren, let us choose the wheat in preference to the chaff. --- our own notions, tokens, and dreams.
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?" Jer. 17: 9.
My sister or brother, maybe your heart has been deceiving you. Better trust the unerring Word of God than a deceitful heart. Once more:
"He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool; but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered." Prov. 28: 26.
He that walketh wisely will not trust in his own heart; that is certain.
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