WORDS OF GOLD | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 10, 1867

WORDS OF GOLD.

The following eloquent allusion to the heavenly graces, we find in Keith's condensed work on the prophecies, p. 114, being his concluding thoughts on the fulfillment of prophecy in the destruction of ancient Tyre:—

“There is a fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness, where guilt may be purged away, even though it were of Tyrian dye; and where the heart, sprinkled from an evil conscience, may be purified for the habitation of a holy God. There is “a mart” which Jesus too has opened up, where even those who once covered themselves with cursing as with a garment, may forever lay aside their besetting sin, and exchange it for those white robes of righteousness in which the children of a Redeemer’s kingdom are clad. There is an ornament, even that of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price, and which ought to be far more highly prized than all “the chests of rich apparel” of which the proudest Tyrian could have ever boasted. There is a “merchandise” in which there is true wisdom and lasting gain, and in which you should never cease from trafficking till you be enabled certainly to find and securely to keep “the pearl of great price.” And since you may wash and be clean, while you think on the sufferings of the Son of God for the sins of men, think also on the gifts he bestows upon men, and be not slack to barter the pleasures of sin for a season, for treasures in Heaven that shall never fade. The wicked shall be cast into outer darkness, as old Tyre was cast, where still it lies in the midst of the waters; but the eternal inheritance of the righteous—where no billows can come over them any more—shall be gladness and glory in the midst of the paradise of God.”