A Better World | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 6, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 31.

A Better World.

When Barnardo obtained his first glimpse of youthful want and wo in London, he says that “a passionate sense of the unfairness of things flooded my heart and mind as I stood that night upon the roof-top. Why should these eleven have nothing, and I and countless others have all we needed? It seemed so unfair, so wrong.” And so many of the poor—those who have nothing—look upon it when they behold their own abject misery, want, wo, and wretchedness, and the want, wo, and wretchedness of those they love, and see others rolling in wealth, wealth many times wrung from the nobler poor. No wonder how, apart from God, men’s hearts grow sick and hard and desperate. It is no wonder that we have all the various parties and associations and schemes and plans for the betterment of the condition of the suppressed millions and the “submerged” thousands. All these are the attempts of drowning humanity to save itself by catching at straws; but they will profit nothing permanently. Let us say to them, the poor, the hopeless, the downtrodden, the crushed, the helpless: There is hope and help. There is a better world. The bruised and crucified Man of Calvary pities and sympathizes with all the suffering ones. He longs to save you, even in this world, from sin—that which has brought all suffering. Saving you from that here, if you will let him, he will save you from all its consequences in the better world soon to come. Will you let him do it? There is reality, blessed, restful reality, in the religion of Christ. Will you take it? All may pass you by here, but “him that cometh to Me,” says Christ, “I will in nowise cast out.”