THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST by Hepworth

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 12, 1878

THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.

By Hepworth

The propagation of this new philosophy was a slow and difficult work, and it is not yet a completed one. Still, as surely as in the early morning the stars by slow degrees fade out as the brindled dawn grows brighter, so surely the old traditions and superstitions with which the world was compelled to be satisfied gave way before the blazing light of new precepts, new truths, new hopes, new aims, and new motives. The doctrine of Christ went on conquering and to conquer age after age. It fascinated men's hearts, it consecrated men's lives, and it dried women's tears, and helped them to look up through the midst of their losses with a smile on their lips. It enabled fathers and mothers to bear their loved ones to the cemetery, and then whisper on their way back to a desolated home, “It is well, because God hath done it.” It made men strong in their business, upright in their private lives, generous in their charities, the architects of philanthropy, and heroes in the days when society was corrupt, and when evil ran rampant throughout the world. From this influence exerted in the past, we look forward to the time when the prophecy shall be fulfilled, and every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess that the Lord Jesus is the Christ, to the glory of God the Father.—Hepworth.