Christ's Mission | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 17, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 36.

Christ's Mission.

CHRIST came into the world to give life to men. "I am come," said he, "that they might have life." Life is his gift, not only the life which all men have, but spiritual and eternal life. When Christ said to the sisters of Bethany, "I am the resurrection and the life," the words touched every aching and quivering nerve, and made the very air about these sisters of sorrow musical with hopefulness and with life. Having placed in the sepulcher the loved remains of a dear brother, and seen the great stone rolled to the opening which led to his place of rest, their hearts were in tune to welcome the sweet harmony which the Lord breathed forth in their hearing. The effect was deepened and intensified by the peculiar personal grief of these sisters, by the deep waters of bereavement through which their feet had been guided by the providence of God. If ever the expression of human thought startled and thrilled an intelligent hearer; if ever the individual, and social, and national life of any people clothed with additional and ringing emphasis a new and radical utterance, it was when the prophet of Nazareth announced to the world of nineteen centuries ago that he had come that men might have life.—Sel.