Desire of Ages

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Feb 11, 1904

BY MRS. E. G. WHITE

THIS is an intensely interesting and instructive volume on the life of Christ, magnifying the truth that “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself.”

In the hearts of all mankind, of whatever race or station in life, there are inexpressible longings for something they do not now possess. This longing is implanted in the very constitution of man, by a merciful God, that man may not be satisfied with his present conditions or attainments. It is God’s design that this longing of the human heart should lead to the One who alone is able to satisfy it. The desire is of him, that it may lead to him, the fulness and fulfilment of that desire. That fulness is found in Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the eternal God. “For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in him should all the fulness dwell.” “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” And it is also true that “in him ye are made full” with respect to every desire divinely implanted and normally followed.

It is the purpose of this book to set forth Jesus Christ as the one in whom every longing may be satisfied; to present the love of God as revealed in his Son, the divine beauty of the life of Christ, of which all may partake, and not to satisfy the desires of the merely curious, nor the questionings of critics. Even as by the attraction of his own goodness of character, Jesus drew his disciples unto himself, and by his personal presence, by his sympathetic touch and feeling in all their infirmities and needs, and by his constant association, transformed their characters from the earthly to the heavenly, from the selfish to the sacrificing, from small-hearted ignorance and prejudice to large-hearted knowledge and love for the souls of all nations and races, even so it is the purpose of this book so to present the blessed Redeemer as to help the reader to come to him face to face, heart to heart, and to find in him, even as did the disciples of old, Jesus, the mighty One who saves to the uttermost, and transforms to his own divine image all those who come unto God by him.

The “Desire of Ages” will interest all classes; for they were all represented in the various individuals who received help and encouragement from the great Consoler while he was here upon earth. This book should be in every home in the land. It contains nearly 900 pages, and is sold at the following prices:—

Popular edition, thin paper, narrow edges, cloth, plain edges . . . . . $2 50 Cloth, marbled edges . . . . . . . . 3 50 Cloth, gilt edges . . . . . . . . . . 4 25 Library, marbled edges . . . . . . . 5 00 Full morrocco, gilt edges . . . . . . 7 00