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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Apr 12, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 15.

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Editorial

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A SHIP without compass, rudder, or anchor is a good illustration of the man who has rejected the guiding and keeping power of God's Holy Spirit. Both in storm and in calm he is the sport of circumstances, and there is little hope that he will ever reach the desired haven. “Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.”
THE only true liberty is found in submission to the Lord's will. “I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.” Liberty is not license, and liberty is not lawlessness. S-i-n spells slavery. The truth makes free. Obedience to the commandments of God is the way of freedom. It is the very essence of anarchy to declare that God's law is abolished in order to escape submission to its precepts. The loyal subjects of Christ's kingdom who walk in the law of the Lord are the free citizens of the heavenly commonwealth.
ONE of the modern interpreters of Christianity declares that “the principles and practises of Jesus are inconsistent with accredited modern ethical principles,” and that “the imitation of Jesus ends in unveraciousness.” There is a ludicrous side to such an impeachment of the work of Jesus by one of these self-constituted judges of revelation and of divine perfection. It does not seem appropriate for a tallow candle to talk about spots on the sun. “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.”

At the Sepulcher

THEY came to anoint the body of him whom they loved, but they “found not the body of the Lord Jesus.” The shadows of the tomb were dispelled by the light of the presence of heavenly beings, and those thrilling words were spoken, “Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.” The disappointment of the women at the sepulcher has been turned into the hope and joy of all believing hearts since that time, and the comfort of those who have wept at the tombs of their dead. “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” He whose greatest triumph was just at the time when hope had died in the hearts of his followers has proclaimed, “I am the first and the last, and the Living One; and I became dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.” And because of his triumph “the hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall come forth.” O glorious morning of the resurrection!
“With what grief and anguish riven Should we see the loved depart, If there were no promise given Which could soothe the wounded heart! If the chains with which death binds them Ne'er again should broken be, And his prison which confines them Ne'er be burst to set them free! “But a glorious day is coming, Earth's long-wished-for jubilee, When creation's King appearing, Shall proclaim his people free; When upborne on Love's bright pinion, They shall shout from land and sea, ‘Death, where is thy dark dominion! Grave, where is thy victory!’”