Words of Cheer by M. J. Bahler

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 2, 1873

Words of Cheer.

By M. J. Bahler

“Though our sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isa. 1:18.

Oh! why can we not believe these holy words? You may bear a sinful heart, so covered with the foul stains that there is no pure place visible, and yet there is a remedy. Calvary’s bleeding Lamb opens a fountain in which you, with all your sin-stains, may be washed clean and pure. But others cannot place you in that fountain. We would quickly do it if we could; but, no; you must accept the offered pardon yourself. You must step into the troubled waters of your own free will if you would be made clean. Only believe that you are accepted, and turn with deep abhorrence from the old life and you may yet win.

And, trembling Christian, you whose feet have so many times slipped that the tempter whispers, “It is of no use, you have dishonored the Master too many times,” listen. He saveth unto the uttermost, and “him that cometh unto me I will in nowise cast out.” “Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.” Don’t wait to make yourself presentable; come now. M. J. Bahler.