Salvation’s Free Gift and Its Cost

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 11, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 37.

Salvation’s Free Gift and Its Cost

Salvation is free, but he who fully accepts it must also accept the Spirit of Him who gave all to make it free. It is not free from the standpoint of selfishness, but in recognition of the principle that “it is ‘more blessed to give than to receive.’” It will not attach to the soul that persists in retaining all he can get of this world. The men whom Christ chose to carry on His work were men who had left all to follow Him. The apostle Paul “suffered the loss ‘of all things’” that he might win Christ. That which is free is the gift, the sacrifice, that made salvation attainable at any cost. All the world could not have purchased the life of the Son of God.