The Mighty Word by George B. Thompson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 2, 1912

The Mighty Word

By George B. Thompson

G. B. THOMPSON

THIS is an age of infidelity. Error is dispensed sugar-coated. Unbelief stalks about in disguise. Skeptics in angel robes sow doubt, and increase uncertainty in many hearts. Blind leaders multiply, and lead the blind from the highway of truth into the ditch of error. The authenticity of the inspired Scriptures is assailed, leaving the world on a trackless, shoreless sea without chart or compass. It has become old-fashioned to believe in the Bible as our fathers did. Many, some of whom stand in high places in religious circles, I regret to say, prate about its errors and sneer at the idea of its being an inspired, infallible guide.

But the old Book still stands, and wields a power in human hearts and homes. There is one argument its enemies can never overthrow. Before it they stand dumb. It is the kind of men and women produced by reading and following its instruction. Why these clean lives? Why this transformation from sin to purity? Why this fixed purpose, this unswerving devotion to principles of right? A noted skeptic is said to have been converted by the question, “Was your mother also a skeptic?” The thought of her pure life of love and unselfish duty, so different from his own depraved nature, broke his heart. He knew some power had changed her heart.

And this is not a new thing. Looking back over the centuries, we find it has always been the same. While sin, holding the generations in its grasp, has dragged its victims, shackled and fettered, down into perdition, a noble band, chosen of God, elect and precious, in every age and clime have walked in freedom another path. With pure lives and trusting hearts, by faith they have triumphed over the world, the flesh, and the devil; regardless of obstacles, and in spite of temptation, in the face of poverty, hardship, sorrow, persecution, prison walls, and death itself, they have conquered. Looking back over the centuries in review of all that the Book of God has wrought in individual lives and in the nations themselves, we are encouraged to believe in it still.

Takoma Park, D. C.