An Assured Success by C. M. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 8, 1915

An Assured Success

By C. M. S.

THIS work of God, committed to a weak people, is certain of success. In spite of the inefficiency of the agents and the opposition of enemies, God is demonstrating his ability to push the proclamation of his truth into every corner of this world. Among this people as a people and among individuals we see the constant fulfillment of this scripture: “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” Phil. 1:6.

Nations have stood in the way of this message to hinder its progress among the people; but in some way God has worked upon the hearts of men and opened ways that seemed effectually closed, so that his truth has gone forward more freely than before. He has used the very oppressions of the nations to his own praise and the spread of his own message of mercy, when exiles have raised up churches in the place of their exile, and when jailers have been compelled to acknowledge that God was working in behalf of those whom they had imprisoned. The place of exile thus becomes, not a place of inactivity, but a new nucleus of operation, a new center of light. “We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” God is abundantly able to make even the wrath of man to praise him, and such as would not be to his praise he can restrain.

That weapon is not considered a prosperous weapon which operates in favor of the cause against which it is formed.

And such are all the weapons devised and formed against the progress of the third angel's message. Says the Word: ‘No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.’ It cannot carry out the intent of its deviser. God will turn its edge against its own cause.

He who brought a world out of nothing, light out of darkness, hope out of despair, and life out of death, knows how to bring out of the mine of this dark world most precious jewels for the crown of his glory in the kingdom of light.

Such is the God whom we serve; and his message is a manifesto of victory as well as a command to action. The people already gathered out of the various nations of earth to rejoice now in the light of this gospel of the kingdom, is an earnest of the completed work when we shall see the representatives of every nation under heaven in the kingdom of God as a result of the proclamation of this message to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.

C. M. S.