Editorial by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 2, 1893

Editorial.

By Editor

"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable."—2 Tim. 3:16.

TRUTH is righteousness in words; righteousness is truth in deeds.

THE great question is not between the "higher" and "lower" criticisms, but between infidelity and faith. This may not seem to be the case now, but the future will reveal it.

THERE are two things which will always bring God's blessing, namely, a sense of our need and faith in Him who will supply all our need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. As long as man feels sufficient in himself, he will not seek help.

THE true child of God knows no compromise with the world. He loves souls; he will sacrifice ease, comfort, wealth, even life that he may win them to God, but he cannot sacrifice principle. Not one soul was ever won to Christ by the compromise of truth or righteousness.

ONE of the foolishest and wickedest papers which it has been our lot to see for some time is one called Non-dependence. Its first article, headed "There Is No Need of Dying," starts out in this way:—

Death is the result of superstition; remove the superstitions in the human mind, and mankind may live forever. Every human being has it within his own power to lead a life of perfect happiness without dying.

All this sounds very good in words, and we presume there will be found many who will believe it till they die. The Bible says that death comes from sin, or is sin "full grown." See Eze. 18:4; James 1:15. The only power which can abolish death is the almighty power of God; and he abolishes death by abolishing sin through Jesus Christ our Lord. This is the gospel of Christ, the mystery of God; the other is only another form of the gospel of self, the mystery of iniquity. The poor paper is a sort of Self-Science affair, differing from "Christian Science" only in name. The great thing in both is the ego.

THE Christian is not of this world. He is "born from above." He may not, therefore, adopt worldly policy, worldly methods, or pursue worldly aims. His way may seem at times to be that of the world; their roads may seem the same, or parallel, but they are radically different in every way unless the Christian has left his high calling and lost faith in God. The one is upheld from above; the other has but his earthly support beneath. To the latter the race, the work, the object, are transient, but to the former they are eternal.