Human Morality

A lady told us that, while cultivating morality in herself, and seeking as much of the quiet, respectable pleasures of life as she wished, her conscience was aroused and her heart bowed down before God by those words of Scripture — “She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth” (1 Tim. 5:66But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. (1 Timothy 5:6)). “Is it possible,” said she within herself, “that I, who am so moral, so virtuous, so careful in my ways, can be dead — dead before God?”
The thought gave her no rest until, by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, she obtained life, resurrection life, everlasting life, in Him, the Son of God.
D. T. G.