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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Apr 7, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 14.

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Editorial

By L. A. S.

A Broad Platform

THE Christian travels in a narrow way, and by the world is accused of being narrow-minded; but he stands upon a broad platform, for his platform is the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. The world travels in a broad way, but its platform is too narrow to afford any foothold for eternity. The broad-minded man is he whose mind is instructed by the law of the Lord; for “Thy commandment is exceeding broad.” The law of the Lord governs the entire universe, and a knowledge of that law is a key to the understanding of all mysteries. The narrowest pathway is the best through a world where iniquity and perils abound upon every side. At the end of the Christian’s narrow pathway here, lies a broad expanse that will afford an eternal home for that great multitude whom no man could number, gathered out of all the nations. In this world it is not the way of our pilgrimage, but our platform of principles, that requires breadth. L. A. S.

Four Dimensions

IN the science of things earthly there are but three dimensions known. People have speculated about a fourth dimension, but only three—length, breadth, and thickness—pertain to any visible object. No object is so great as to have more than these. But in the science of heavenly things we come to a fourth dimension. We find this statement of it given by Inspiration (Eph. 3: 17-19): “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”
The love of Christ is so great that three dimensions will not measure it,—his love for us. It must have breadth, to cover every nation and family on the earth; it must have length, to extend from Adam’s day to ours; it must have depth, to reach to the lowest plane of sin and woe; it must have height, to lift us up to the throne of God. Truly this is a love worth comprehending, worth possessing. L. A. S.