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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, September 24, 1867

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 15

NO PEACE OUT OF CHRIST.

A young man of thoughtful mind, who had been a careful student of the Bible but had never received the truth into his heart, said, “I should be happy if I could be a Universalist; but the early instructions of a sainted mother, the dictates of conscience, and especially the teachings of God’s word, convince me that the doctrine is untrue, and I cannot found my peace upon a falsehood.”

“I have plunged deeply into pleasure,” said another; “have sought happiness in the dancing-hall, at the gaming table and the wine-cup, and might enjoy it but for the thought that thousands of miles away my father is pleading with God for my salvation.”

Another acknowledged, “I have amassed wealth; my success has exceeded my highest anticipation; but the fearful question, ‘What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?’ which years ago I heard in a humble church in my native village, rings in my ears and poisons my enjoyment.

Thus God seeks to draw sinners to himself, the only source of true peace; and while many acknowledge that in vain have they sought to satisfy the soul with earthly good, thousands continually haunted by the memory of wasted talents, misimproved privileges, and neglected opportunities, rush deeper and deeper into the vortex of worldliness, to stifle the chidings of conscience, and drown the voice of the Holy Spirit. Too often, alas, the effort proves successful, and the hardened sinner finds at length that he has sealed his eternal destiny.