NO FEAR IN CHRIST

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 12, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 28.

NO FEAR IN CHRIST.

Ps. 118:6: "The Lord is on my side; I will not fear; what can man do unto me?"

Rom. 8:38, 39: "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

A Christian was brought before the emperor. The potentate thought to frighten him into obedience to him, and said, "I'll banish you." "No, you can't," said the Christian; "for you can't banish me from Christ."

"Then I'll take your life," cried the irate monarch.

"You can't," was the reply; "for in Christ I live and have my being."

"Then I'll confiscate your wealth."

"You can't," was still the response; "for in Christ I have all riches."

"At least," the tyrant said, "I shall cause you to lose all your friends, and you will virtually be an outcast."

"But you can not," the Christian exultantly replied; "for I have a Friend that sticketh closer than a brother." Is it not sweet when to our own souls, as He was to this servant, Christ is "all and in all"?