The One True Light by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 18, 1909

The One True Light

By W. A. S.

THE life of Jesus silences the claims of every perversion of the Christian religion, and of every false religion.

The Hindu talks of Krishna as the divine incarnation, born into the world to teach the way of life.

The Mohammedan glorifies Mohammed as the greatest teacher ever sent on earth, and the Moslem religion as the one true way.

I have asked the non-Christian inquirer in India to put these three religions to the test of the life.

If a man lived in modern times as Krishna is said to have lived, would he be considered a good and model man? Even the Hindu must acknowledge that Krishna lived a vicious life, and that any one following his example would quickly be locked up as a criminal in any orderly community.

Is Mohammed's life one that would be counted a model in the community today? — Plainly not. Dr. Tisdall, of Persia, says that what we learn of his later years from his Moslem biographers is so evil “that it has been found in India that the perusal of his life has again and again led Moslems to abandon their religion.”

Then what of the life of Christ? If a man follows the life and example of Jesus, will he live a model life? Not a Hindu, not a Mohammedan, not a non-Christian can be found who can find aught that is evil in the life of the Author of Christianity.

“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” He is the one true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. The first convert in the history of modern missions in Japan found a Bible, and in reading the story of Jesus was “taken captive,” he said, “by his life.”

The sum of Christian duty is to “follow his steps.” Sabbath-keeping, baptism, all the duties of Christian service, are urged as part of the life that Jesus lived as our example. Seventh-day Adventism stands for following Christ.

W. A. S.