GOOD SOLDIERS OF JESUS CHRIST by August Rasmussen

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 25, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 21.

GOOD SOLDIERS OF JESUS CHRIST.

By August Rasmussen

“The holy apostles were put to death for the cause of Jesus. Andrew and Peter were crucified; Paul and James were beheaded; Matthias was stoned; Mark was in a barbarous manner dragged about till he expired; and so they all alike suffered martyrdom.”

Paul in his epistle to the Hebrews, chap. 11:37, says of those who feared God, “They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.”

These were good soldiers of Jesus Christ. Our Captain calls for good soldiers just now—men and women who will labor and sacrifice. Paul charged Timothy, “Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.” 2 Tim. 2:3. Of his own warfare he thus speaks, “I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.” AUGUST RASMUSSEN.