Christ not Wanted by Rev. E. A. Stockman

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 26, 1883

Christ not Wanted.

By Rev. E. A. Stockman

The truth is—sad and painful truth—Christ is not wanted in this world. When he came in his first advent he was regarded as an intruder, and put away as quickly as possible—by bloody hands. The dominant religious sentiment of that time acknowledged the need of no such Christ as he. And great Christendom of to-day is fond of a Christ afar off; but with a personal Jesus coming soon to reign literally on earth they will have nothing to do. Of such a Christ the cry still is, “Away with him!” Nevertheless, “Unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”

Awfully will the doom of the Judgment Day fall on many classes of unsaved men; but none will wail with deeper anguish than the evil servants who seek to smother the awakened apprehensions of the world with contemptuous scoffing at the “promise of his coming.”—Rev. E. A. Stockman.