THE SOLUTION by Willard H. Saxby

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 15, 1900

THE SOLUTION.

By Willard H. Saxby

WILLARD H. SAXBY.

(Battle Creek, Mich.)

Not long ago, I heard a mother say, with unspeakable joy, of her only son, who had recently given his heart to the Lord, and was all aglow in his service, “— is just lovely.” There was something in her way of saying it, the tone of her voice, etc., that followed me.

I had often heard (and who has not?) extravagant expressions from young, thoughtless, and superficial people, as, such and such a thing, an ordinary affair, was “lovely,” “just lovely,” was “just perfectly lovely,” or was “just perfectly delightful,” all of which carried very little weight with it. I began to think, How is it that such a perverse, unloveable boy has been transformed into one who is, by all who know him, considered “just lovely”? And here is the solution: “Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” Rom. 5 : 20. “Christ liveth in me.” Gal. 2 : 20. Consequently, “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Cor. 5 : 17. This is our wonderful transforming Saviour,—“the chiefest among ten thousand,” the one “altogether lovely.” Cant. 5 : 10, 16.

Every son who has this indwelling Saviour becomes, in a sense, the chiefest among ten thousand boys that know not Christ: the one “altogether lovely.” Precious son, indeed! All this applies equally to every daughter, yes, to every member of the family. What a little heaven a whole family of such would have, to go to heaven in!