I Was There by G. B. Thompson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 24, 1915

“I Was There”

By G. B. Thompson

It is recorded that Napoleon, after a famous battle, gave his soldiers a silver medal, inscribed with the sentence “I was there,” and the name of the bloody conflict. This medal was highly appreciated by the veterans.

So when the great conflict of the ages shall have been finished, through eternity those who have “been there,” who have passed through the terrible conflict, will have an experience that will mark them as a distinct company through all time. The redeemed will sing the song of their deliverance through the blood of Christ. The one hundred and forty-four thousand will sing a song which no man can learn, and which can never be sung by angels or the inhabitants of unfallen worlds, for they have not “been there.” They have not passed through contest with the powers of darkness, and won by faith the prize of eternal life.

Through the eternal ages it will be our joy that we have “been there,” and through the redemption which Jesus has purchased for us we have been overcomers, and more than conquerors through him who loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.

G. B. THOMPSON.