Gospel Liberty

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 30, 1902

GOSPEL liberty is the liberty that God gives men through the gospel. It expresses God's idea of freedom. It is the freedom seen in nature, and in all the works of God's hands. It is the freedom of the winds, blowing where they list; it is the freedom of the flowers, scattered everywhere through wood and meadow; it is the freedom of the birds, soaring unrestrained through the heavens; the freedom of the sunbeam, shooting from its parent orb; the freedom of the celestial orbs, sweeping ceaselessly on through infinite space. This is the freedom that flows out from the great Creator through all his works. It is sin that has produced what is narrow and contracted and circumscribed,—that has erected boundary lines, and made men stingy and niggardly. But sin is to be removed, and then perfect liberty will be realized once more in every part of creation. Even now this freedom may be tasted, by having sin removed from the heart. To enjoy this freedom through eternity is the glorious privilege now offered in the gospel to all men. Who that claims to love liberty can let this opportunity pass unimproved?—Selected.