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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Apr 27, 1905

Editorial

By Editor

Convincing Testimony

THE exponents of the New Theology are able to meet argument with argument, and sound exegesis with philosophical speculation, but they must go down before the triumphant power of the faith which takes God at his word. The greatest argument in support of the original Christianity is Christianity itself. The most convincing testimony in behalf of an all-sufficient Saviour is a life of deliverance from sin. The most satisfactory evidence that there is a saving message for this generation is the people who have been saved by the message. The rulers and elders and scribes attempted to counteract the effect of the apostles’ teaching, and to discredit their miracle-working power, but “seeing the man that was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.” The strength of this message is not in the theoretical interpretation of certain texts, although it does furnish a simple and consistent presentation of much that has been involved in obscurity, but in its actual results in gathering out believers from all classes and all nationalities, and uniting them as one body of loyal, self-sacrificing witnesses to the transforming power of a saving gospel, even at this time when the enemy is coming in like a flood, and so many are being overwhelmed in the swelling tide of evil. Here is the opportunity for every one to bear a telling testimony. In the quiet of the home, in the regular round of routine duties, in the daily association with friends and neighbors, as well as in the more public life of the recognized laborer, there is abundant opportunity to make the most convincing argument in behalf of that old-fashioned religion which believes in God rather than in man. Such testimony as this is greatly needed. Let each one be a faithful witness.