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The Cross of Christ

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 26, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 43.

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The Cross of Christ

The cross of Christ has made many notable conquests in the lands of heathen darkness. Before the simple story of the cross, heathen philosophy has been vanquished from many hearts, and the transforming power of the gospel seen in many lives. It would be too much to expect that genuine work has been done in the case of every professed conversion. The “rice” Christians of the Orient have their prototype in many older and more civilized Christian communities. By too many in such lands as England and the United States, the Christian church is regarded as a great social organization, membership in which will accrue to the advantage of the men of business and profession. Nevertheless in every land, and none the less in the dark heathen countries, have been found those who were truly transformed by the grace of Christ.
“God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.” The gospel “is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.” While some may despise the riches of God’s grace, and receive deceitfully the word of life and try to make out of it merchandise for personal gain, there are those in every land and in every neighborhood who will receive it truly as the word of the great God, as a means of salvation from sin here and of life in the world to come. While the great multitude travel in the broad road to death, and few there are who enter in at the strait gate, we should realize that the blessed Master gave his life for the few, and so out among the busy throng, the teeming multitudes, the city’s millions, as well as in the mountain waste, desert morass, and ocean isle, we are to labor to turn men to God and to lead them to avail themselves of the offers of his love. One soul won to God and saved to eternity will be priceless in comparison to any toil or sacrifice, however great, which soul-saving service brings to us. No labor is so sweet and satisfying as laboring for those in need. In such labor Christ found his chief joy. Our greatest happiness will be found in the same way.