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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 14, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 45.

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GOOD THINGS.

THE best evidence of the presence and work of the Holy Spirit is love. “The fruit of the Spirit is love,” says the Book. Love is put first. That is where it belongs. There is not much of polemics in the foregoing statement, but heaven is in it. If we would all stop here, there would be less fog in our spiritual sky and more joy in our believing hearts.
The atonement of Christ is that work of obedience and suffering for man by which he rendered the government of God the infinite service of showing the awful evil of sin, the supremacy of divine law, the incalculable value of human souls, and the coexistence of justice and love in God, because of which service for man and in man’s nature God can safely pardon the penitent sinner who trusts in Christ.
Many a Christian man who in the hours of his ease and prosperity forgets to pray is driven back to the mercy-seat by the storms of adversity. Losses, bereavements, persecutions, bring with them a deep sense of human helplessness and an earnest longing after divine help. In the midst of calamities which they can not control, men naturally turn to the one and only source of perfect security. It is then that they realize, as never before, how “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”—Selected.