p. 1 | Words of Jesus

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 14, 1878

Words of Jesus.

The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon says: "I remember being in the Island of Lido, off Venice, listening to the music of the bells, thinking how charming it was—perhaps no melody could be sweeter; but, on returning to the city on the same day, the bells there ringing seemed to drive one mad; there was no sweetness apparently, in any one; distance had lent enchantment to the sound. And so with the word of man. At a distance, it rings out melody only; but take it to pieces and find out each quality, each separate thought, and you find nothing but discordance. It is never so with the great words of Jesus. You can hear them ring very far when you are a sinner, alone on the mountain wilds, and they still ring of hope; and you can afterward listen to each distinct word, each separate silver bell, and, among all, say of each separate one: 'I never thought there was anything so inexpressibly sweet as this, outside of Heaven.' The best of all is that these precious words will never wear out; for Jesus said, 'Though heaven and earth shall pass away, yet my words shall never pass away.'"