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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 13, 1908

The Vital Principles of the Gospel

THE vital principles of the gospel are always the same. There is the great fact of sin: “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” There is only one way of escape: “Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” There is only one way of laying hold upon the provision made for sinners: “By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.” “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” This is the gospel of salvation from sin, of justification through faith in the merits of Christ, the eternal Son, which is to be proclaimed anew in this generation to all the world in view of the fact that “the time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand.”