p. 5 | Finding the Path by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 21, 1904

Finding the Path

By W. A. S.

At a Western meeting, a sister spoke out with the true ring of a heart’s discovery, “I have found the path.”

Did you ever lose the homeward path in the woods, and then come upon it again with its old familiar markings? If so, you will remember that when you found the path, you were almost as glad as though you were already at home. The path led home, and you had your feet again in the dear, familiar road.

It is a grand and glorious discovery when the heart finds the path, the way of salvation, that leads to God and heaven. Thank God, we know the path, and the Lord will lead us in the path of righteousness for his name’s sake. It is the old familiar path that the feet of patriarchs and prophets, apostles and pioneers have trod before us. It is the advent pathway to the city of God. And we have found it. It is the next thing to actually being home. Let us rejoice and thank God for the path.

This path is what the truth-seeking hearts in all the world are looking for, and our work is to go quickly to all nations and point out the path. We must make it very plain. The late Bishop Whipple, apostle to the Indians of the Northwest, won the confidence of his men of the “wandering foot” because he dealt in simplicity with practical realities, and talked straight to their hearts. The chief of the Red Lakes said to him, “You are patient, and you make the trail plain. I have your face on my heart.”

No higher ambition can any of us cherish than that of making the way plain. The Lord is coming. The earth is to be destroyed. Our eyes, the eyes of this very generation, are to see it accomplished. The Lord commissions us to tell men the way of escape and of the path to heaven. Let us as workers ever remember that lost wanderers from God need to have the trail made very plain.

W. A. S.