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Lamennais on Sacrifice and the Cross

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 13, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 36, No. 13.

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Lamennais on Sacrifice and the Cross

M. LAMENNAIS is reported to have uttered the following weighty words just before his death: “There is nothing fruitful but sacrifice. Some will say this is a hard saying; who can hear it? Yet the fact remains that for eighteen hundred years, during which Christians have professed to believe in the cross, nothing really elevated, beautiful, or good, has been done upon the earth except at the cost of suffering and self-abnegation.”