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The Uncompromising Way of Faith

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 27, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 43.

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The Uncompromising Way of Faith

FAITH can walk where unbelief can never go.
Of the children of Israel it is written: “By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.” Heb. 11:29.
The feet of faith could pass where those who did not trust in God could find no way.
We are seeing the experience repeated continually. “Follow me,” said Christ, as he walked unswervingly the way of his Father’s commandments. And ever with “the commandments of God” as the way, there must be “the faith of Jesus” as the means. When Abraham, the father of the faithful, was plainly led of God into a way that seemed impossible, we are told that against hope he believed in hope. “He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; . . . being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.” Apparent impossibilities may hedge up the way of obedience; but never yet has that way proved a failure to the man who cast his helpless soul upon God, and ventured his all by faith, come life or come death.
Men are to-day giving up cherished plans because the carrying out of them would compromise faith; and they find more than compensation in the grace of Christ. Where one way closes, God has another way, and a better one, though it may be a harder.
In the matter of loyalty to God’s Sabbath—which has in it the cross of Christ that crucifies unto the world—many in various lands are proving in common daily affairs that he who in olden time “made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over,” is still making ways for those who trust in him. Here is one experience—that of a young medical student in France:—
He desired to take the medical course for service in our work in France, where we have never had a physician. With regular school work so often encroaching on the Sabbath, and with no means for the expensive private tutoring, the