Knew not Jesus.- | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 15.

Knew not Jesus.—

When Mary Magdalene went to the tomb where Jesus had been laid, and found it empty, she was greatly troubled. She wept bitterly because she could not find His lifeless body. And when He appeared to her alive, and spoke to her, she “knew not that it was Jesus.” How many professed followers of Christ are mourning over their troubles to-day because they do not recognize Jesus. And why do they not know Him?—Because of unbelief of His Word. Had Mary and the other disciples believed His instruction, they would all have been at the tomb earlier that morning, expecting to see Him arise and come forth. So to-day, because people do not have implicit confidence in the Scriptures of truth, they do not fully realize that they have a living Saviour, who is “a very present help in trouble.” Ps. 46:1.

The latest government statistics show that eight gallons a year more of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages to the person are used to-day in this country than twenty years ago. Strong drinks and mineral waters and prepared drinks of that kind are largely taking the place of plain water just as it was given us by the Creator. This increase in the use of mineral water and other prepared beverages of the kind is doubtless largely due to the fact that the germ theory of disease has been discovered and promulgated so extensively. But there is danger of the good being perverted that should come from this knowledge. Be sure that you have pure water, then drink lots of it. It can not be improved upon in the line of a drink.