p. 16 | The Open Door

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 15, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 42.

The Open Door

Displayed against all the assumptions of men and systems and organizations who claim to be sponsors for the soul, is the declaration of Jesus Christ: “These things saith He that is holy, He that is true, He that hath the key of David [not Peter], He that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth: I know thy works. Behold, I have set before thee a door opened, which none can shut.” There it stands, not ajar, but open. No man can shut it. Neither pope, nor council, nor consistory, nor priest, nor minister, nor conference, nor presbytery can close the door which Jesus Christ has opened to every sin-sick soul. He declares, “Look unto Me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth;” “Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out.” Then come, fully, trustingly, assuringly come; only in coming is there healing and refuge for you. and Jesus tells us, “And this is life eternal, that they should know Thee, the only true God, and Him whom Thou didst send, even Christ Jesus.” He only can know God who yields to the harmony of His law, and he only can know complex and contradictory man who learns him from God. All the researchers of science will lead blindly which leave God out of the account as the Author of life and being.