p. 4 | A Word for the Hour

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 9, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 47.

A Word for the Hour.

It is not, after all, a thing to be wondered at that men should reject the great truths of revelation. These truths are spiritual, and the carnal mind has no capacity for receiving them; they are holy, and are never likely to please ungodly hearts, and, besides, they are humbling to the creature and give all glory to God, and hence proud flesh is at drawn daggers with them. If the unregenerate world received the gospel with favor it would cast great doubt on the divine nature of the doctrine; but when the unrenewed heart rejects it with disdain, it does, in its own blind way, acknowledge that the teaching is not of man, neither by man. If the gospel were of the world, the world would love its own; but because it is of God, therefore the world rejects it. Have we not been too much staggered by the fact that the direction of modern thought is against evangelical truth? Was not ancient thought the same? Is not that text always true, "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord."—Sel.