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The Cross of Christ

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 21, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 36, No. 1.

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The Cross of Christ.

THE cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that ever I bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or as sails to a ship to carry me forward to my desired haven.
Those who by faith see the invisible God and the fair city, make no account of present losses and crosses.
Truly it is a glorious thing to follow the Lamb; it is the highway of glory; but when you see him in his own country at home, you will think you never saw him before.
More than CHRIST I can neither wish, nor pray, nor desire for you. I am sure that the saints are at best but strangers to the weight and worth of the incomparable excellence of CHRIST. We know not the half of what we love when we love him.
That CHRIST and the sinner should be one, and should share Heaven between them, is the wonder of salvation; what more could love do?
I find that when saints are under trials and well humbled, little sins raise great cries in the conscience; but in prosperity, conscience is a pope that gives dispensations and great latitude to our hearts. The cross, therefore, is as needful as the crown will be glorious.—Rutherford's Letters.