The Remedy by James White

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · May 6, 1875

The Remedy.

By James White

BEWARE of the false notion that doubting is a virtue, and that a spirit of watchfulness and jealousy for the faults of those who are standing under the burdens of great responsibilities, is a Christian grace. No man should believe without evidence. But when once committed for sufficient evidence, it is a great weakness and wrong to doubt without good reasons, and fall back simply because Satan pulls one back. How much better to go forward confidingly, unless good reasons can be assigned for halting, and fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold on eternal life.

We heartily recommend the grace of God to those who are so busy with better people’s faults that they have but little time to search for and attend to their own. "Resist the devil," dear friends, "and he will flee from you, draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners [in Zion] and purify your hearts ye double-minded." These poor double-minded souls will lose Heaven unless they discharge Satan, and come so nigh to God that he can make a hedge about them, as the Lord did about his tried servant Job, so that the wicked one can not touch them.

Come, dear complaining, whining, fretting souls, so very near to the Lord that you can drink from the heavenly fountain of love, and feel and know in your own experience the power of divine grace, and holy trust expressed by the Psalmist when he says: "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust. His truth shall be thy shield and buckler." Ps. 91: 1-4. J. W.