p. 549 | Salvation from Sin

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 11, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 35.

Salvation from Sin

THE message of Christianity is a message of salvation from sin. The grand purport of Christianity is in its announcement of redemption, and in its clear declaration that redemption is not through any jugglery whereby sin’s penalty is evaded, but by a divine power and through a vital process whereby man is to become like his Master. There is nothing speculative in this message of the gospel. It holds itself strictly to facts, and presses itself unflinchingly on the human conscience. There is no room for debate; God is holy, man is sinful. Reconciliation to God is not an artificial patching up of moral differences between man and his Maker. It is bringing man up to that standard of morality that reflects the image of his Creator.