An Oasis in the Desert

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 2, 1909

An Oasis in the Desert

An oasis is a place of rest and refreshment in a barren waste. After reading the declarations of so many of the great men of the colleges in reference to God and his Word, the following editorial from the Sunday School Times will prove to be a true oasis to the lover of God’s Word:—

When a man is attacked for his loyalty to the Bible and Bible truth, he has a right to feel encouraged. The Bible begins to mean something to him then; and he begins to mean something to the kingdom. Such an attack is evidence that he is really alive. For, as a well-known defender and expounder of the Bible as God’s Word has keenly said: “The Bible is a living thing; and when it gets into you and your life, you’ll be under the scalpel of every little critic.” Criticism is not a thing to be sought; but when it comes as a result of getting the Bible into our blood, it is not to be feared. Are you intimate enough with the Bible to invite such criticism?

Seventh-day Adventists ought, of all people, to be so intimate with God’s Word and so filled with the message it contains, that they will be not only a standing rebuke to unbelief in and out of the church, but a standing exponent of the truths that Book contains. “Arise, shine; for thy light is come.”