Liberty and Law by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 26, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 25.

Liberty and Law.

By Editor

UNDER this heading the Occident (Presbyterian) discourses so sensibly upon what constitutes true freedom—gospel liberty—that we consider the following extract worthy of a prominent place:—

"Liberty is not license. Rather, it is the bringing of the whole heart and life into such perfect subjection to God that the highest freedom is the truest devotion to him. The child that is free is not the prodigal who has torn away from the restraints of home, but the one who is lovingly and faithfully doing filial duty. Christian freedom is consecration to Christ's will. He who can say, 'Thy will be done,' and say it sweetly and lovingly, whether it be a hard duty or a painful submission, is free. George McDonald says: 'When God's will is our law, we are a kind of noble slaves, but when God's will is our will then we are his free children.' So it is not freedom from God's law, but in it, that is the Christian's privilege."