Christ All and in All by T. M. FRENCH

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1915

Christ All and in All

By T. M. FRENCH

T. M. FRENCH

THERE is a striking lesson of self-abnegation in the example of John the Baptist that should characterize the lives of workers in the proclamation of the second advent message. “And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou bearest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.”

These words were doubtless designed to stir up that selfish ambition, that jealousy, which would have proved ruinous to the very work that John had begun. But, no, this plain, humble man of God immediately took in the situation. This was just that for which he had been laboring and praying, that Christ might be given his rightful place, and in the contemplation of this, great theme, self was lost sight of. Hear his noble reply: “Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. . . . He must increase, but I must decrease.” John 3: 28-30.

In like manner, we who are sent before him who is “to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe,” preparing the way for that glorious event, should bear the same unselfish, humble, and effective witness. Thus we may turn all men to him who is to be all and in all in that great day.

Grimsby, England.