p. 11 | The Great Fact

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 25, 1908

The Great Fact

JESUS CHRIST is a fact. His character and influence are facts. They can not be brushed aside or ignored by burying them under the general facts of human life. It is true that all other men have sinned, but that does not annul the fact of Christ’s sinlessness. It is true that no other man has ever wielded such an influence; but that does not dispose of the fact of his influence. “When it is a question of the character of an individual,” says Dr. D. W. Forrest, “we have no right to judge of him by generalization, however broadly founded, drawn from the actions of others, but solely by what the facts of his own life testify.” Our field of vision must be broadened, and our generalizations loosened up, to allow for all the facts. Whatever facts there are, we have to reckon with. Because one of these is unlike all the others, does not entitle us to throw out the one troublesome fact. It proves, in the case of Christ, to be the one fact worth all the rest.—Selected.