What Must I Do to Be Saved?
By D. F. Quinn
THIS question, I think, does not trouble the great mass of mankind. Other questions, of far less importance, now interest the minds of a large portion of the human family. What shall we eat? what shall we drink? and wherewithal shall we be clothed? are questions that occupy the minds of the multitude. They have great anxiety in reference to these things, but not in regard to the life that is to come. Nor do they feel that it is necessary to inquire in regard to present duty and obligation. If there ever was a time when the question at the head of this article was appropriate, it is equally so now. We are evidently living in the last days. Everything indicates it. The present condition of the world speaks in trumpet tones that the end is near. Was the world more corrupt in the days of Noah? Peter says: “Seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent, that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.” Is not the inquiry, What must I do to be saved? a pertinent one? Jesus says, “Keep the commandments.” Shall we say, like one of old, “Which?” or shall we do as Jesus commanded? He says, “I have kept the commandments of my Father, and abide in his love.” Is he not our example? Then it is plain that we are to keep the commandments, including that one for which God gave both a reason and an example—one which he says is to be a sign between him and his people forever. We cannot disregard these commands except at our peril. Then let us, with all the heart, enter into the work, heeding the words of Scripture: “Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.” D. F. QUINN.