THE THIRD PERSON | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1900

THE THIRD PERSON.

The King's Messenger.

THE Jews of old said, We believe in Moses and the prophets, we worship God the Father, we keep the law, but as for this fellow, Jesus of Nazareth, away with him.

Did the Father receive their so-called worship of him? Hear him, as once and again he speaks from his hidden throne and says, “This is my beloved Son: hear him.” And the history of the following centuries of that “scattered and peeled” people has silently and loudly proved that they could not worship the Father acceptably and refuse his representative, his only begotten Son. Sinai lost its voice of awful majesty, the Shekina grew dim and faded out entirely, leaving the holy of holies a place of utter darkness.

We make a like mistake to-day. We cry, “Jesus only,” “Christ in you.” We worship the Father and the Son, but we will not give the place of power and authority to their representative, the blessed Holy Ghost. From the pulpits of our most spiritual churches we preach fear for our creed and the truth, if he is made known and received. In our institutions