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The Same Cause

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Sep 29, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 39.

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The Same Cause

By L. A. S.

Editorial

The Same Cause

WE are living down at the end of time, when the controversy between good and evil has reached its climax. It may be helpful as we engage in work for the Lord at this time to look back over the history of his work, and remember that the cause committed to our hands is the same cause that was represented by the faithful ones of the past ages. There is a new setting of circumstances and events, but it is the old cause, the same “everlasting gospel.” The cause for which Abraham stood, and Moses, and Elijah, and Luther, and other heroes of the faith, when great crises in the controversy were reached, and the power of God was manifested in a way that thrills us as we read the account, has come down to us. The ancient heroes have passed away, but the cause has survived, and is stirring the world to-day. It is the same cause, and the same God is with it. Let there be on our part the same faith that brought victory in the former days.
L. A. S.

The Truth

God has so ordered it that his truth shall be recognized for what it is, and not by its surroundings. He took the very jewel of heaven and set it in sinful flesh, in order that men might learn to recognize truth for what it is, and not by its surroundings. God calls upon every man and woman to-day to recognize truth, and to bow in humble obedience to it, regardless of who presents it or of what its setting is, whether it be in a palace or in a hovel, whether from eloquent lips or the lips of a stammerer, whether it comes set forth with all the attractiveness the world can give it, or from so humble a place as a manger. God has so ordered it that human minds, uninfluenced by the things of time and sense, shall learn to recognize and rejoice in truth; and to every one who will have his eyes anointed with eye-salve that he may see, to every one who seeks after the truth as it is in Jesus Christ, in order that the truth as manifested in Jesus Christ may be manifested in him, God will open before him a wondrous field of truth. But let God’s word be the test of all truth. Take what no man says, no matter who he is, unless he gives you the word of God; and if he does give you this word, receive it as the truth of God, prize it as the truth of God, and let God transform your lives into the very image of truth, as it is in Jesus Christ.