The Gospel and the Great Controversy by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 18, 1913

The Gospel and the Great Controversy

By Editor

Editorial

THE Bible was made necessary and made possible by two characters that stand out with special prominence in its pages. The one was the personification of sin; the other the personification of righteousness. The one brought sin into the world in his own person; the other brought the remedy for sin, and brought it in his own person. Satan was sin itself, and he has left through the world a trail of misery and death. Jesus Christ was the gospel, and wherever he has gone misery has been assuaged and death has been robbed of its sting. That is the controversy toward whose culmination we look with fondest hope. But the remedy must go as deep as the disease and as wide as its devastating sweep has been. So it is only when “this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world” that the end will come. Do we look to that consummation with eager longing? Then our course is clear. “Go work today in My vineyard.”