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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 5, 1908

Simple and Wonderful

THE way of salvation is wonderfully simple and simply wonderful. The whole gospel is summarized in these words: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.” A person of ordinary intellectual capacity, even a child, can lay hold upon the provision set forth in this statement, but the greatest minds of the greatest men can be put to the utmost stretch in order to comprehend fully what is contained in this revelation of the love of God. We need not attempt by searching to find out God. No effort of the human mind can discover him, but it will require all the intellectual power which we can muster to receive the revelation already made. This revelation is simple in that it is stated in the plainest language for conveyance to finite minds; it is wonderful,

in that it deals with the basic principles of the divine government, and lays bare before us the depths of divine wisdom. It makes known to us a God whom no scientific research can discover, and discloses the way of fellowship between the infinite and the finite. It points out to us the bridge which has been swung across the chasm created by sin, and shows us that the ladder which connects earth and heaven touches both earth and heaven. To those oppressed by the burden of sin it says, “Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!” Simple and wonderful! It thus renews hope to the hopeless, faith to the faithless, and love to the loveless. We should take great care lest we lose the simplicity of the gospel in the very effort to expound it. The old truths are both simple and wonderful.