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Can I be Saved?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 5, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 34, No. 15.

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Can I be Saved?

By JOS. CLARKE.

“He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” Matt. xxiv, 13.
Saved from the ruin of a race engulfed in sin and woe; saved from the final purifying flames, which shall consume the ungodly, and all that has been polluted by sin; saved from the wrath of an offended God; saved from the shame of an ignominious death; saved from the wreck of a fallen world.
What a salvation! To be saved from the dreadful pangs of the second death; saved from the sense of loss, which the lost will feel, with untold pangs, as they in their last agonies look upon the glorious company of the redeemed in Heaven.
Can I be saved? saved from my sins? saved from my weakness? saved from my unworthiness? Can one so unworthy have a place in the company of the redeemed? Oh, the thought of being saved! It is a precious hope.
Then, too, the results of being saved: a home in Heaven; an inheritance in the new earth; a future life of ceaseless joy, and continual improvement; a life in the presence of the Creator, whose smile is bliss, and joy unspeakable; a life in the celestial regions, among the beings and amid the scenes which holy men have tried in vain to describe, language itself being inadequate.
Can I bear to think of a failure? No. Salvation is offered. I will apply. And how comforting the thought that we may yet apply, for a little while, to God, for eternal life. JOS. CLARKE.