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The Power of Gospel Literature

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Dec 29, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 52.

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The Power of Gospel Literature

By H. H. Cobban

WHEREIN lies the power of gospel literature, and of our denominational literature especially? All literature is powerful; but when it contains the last message that God is sending to the world, then God's power stands behind it in a special manner. There are many persons who will read this message who would not listen to a minister. One writer has said: “The books never tire in their message. They never grow angry. They speak the same truth again and again. They never answer back. How many they have thus won to the truth who would have seen something in the living preacher, in tone, or manner, or expression, to offend, or repel, or weary!” Shall we not as a people appreciate and use this agency that God has given us?
H. H. COBBAN.