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THE POWER THAT DRAWS

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 5, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 10.

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THE POWER THAT DRAWS

The Examiner
“AND I, if I be lifted up,” said our Lord a few hours before His death, “will draw all men unto me.” We are greatly troubled in these days over the indifference of multitudes to the services of the Church, and many are the devices resorted to for the purpose of persuading the people, and especially men, to attend them. But all these devices — which we need not here particularize, for they are known to all — are ephemeral in effect, because, however ingenious and pleasing at first, they soon pall upon the taste. The only attractive power that has never yet failed, and never can fail, is the uplifted Christ. The preachers who to-day are most faithfully holding up the crucified Lord as the sinner’s only hope are those whose ministry is most effective in winning the attention of the people, and in persuading men to be reconciled to God. This is the method prescribed by divine wisdom, and no device of man can improve upon or successfully supersede it.