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Our Pattern — the Life of Jesus

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 20, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 34.

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Our Pattern — the Life of Jesus

By W. A. S.

WHAT a blessed thing it is that we can boldly tell all the world that our faith and practise is to follow Jesus. Seventh-day Adventism stands only and fully for following Christ, who lived in this world, and left us an example that we “should follow his steps.” “He that saith he ‘abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.’”
We are Sabbath-keepers because Jesus was a Sabbath-keeper — “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.”
Where Jesus walked, we would walk. As he did, we would do. He is our example in commandment-keeping, our pattern in every religious practise of life, and his life is the doctrine of life, and the inspiration and power in every department of our work, evangelistic, educational, or health and temperance.
Jesus lived to show men how to live; and thank God we have only to point men to the actual life lived. There are the footprints, leading straight through this world into heaven. That is the path in which we are to follow, and into which we are to seek to turn the feet of others. W. A. S.