OF COUNSEL AND MIGHT by Wescott

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 28, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 30.

“OF COUNSEL AND MIGHT.”

By Wescott

So it is that the spirit of might carries with it the promise of victory. He who feels it will never forget that he belongs to that host of which Christ said that the gates of hades should not prevail against it. And surely this is not an image of successful resistance but of triumphant progress. It is not the assurance that we shall be enabled to maintain a beleaguered citadel, sore pressed till relief comes, but that we shall, under our great Captain, bear down every opposing force of evil. Onward through the ages, slowly as the spirit of counsel shall guide, irresistibly as the spirit of might shall serve, the army of Christ shall move, till the last stronghold of death falls before it and yields up its captives. This is our hope, and nothing less. This is our final aim; this is our final work. In and for this we bring the service of our little lives, strong with the strength of Him in whom we are, commending our faith to willing hearers by the spirit of counsel, approving its power to adversaries by the spirit of might.—Wescott.