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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 13, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 15.

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"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable."—2 Tim. 3:16.
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
THE moulding principle of the doctrine of Christ is love. The gospel proclaims not only good will to a certain class of men, but good will to men, to all men. The mission of Christ was not to judge the world, but to save the world; and his servants are to carry on the work he begun. Those who seek to enforce the ordinances of Christ upon others, in so doing reject his gospel and usurp his authority of coming Judge and King.
WHEN Moses asked the Lord to tell him what he should say when asked who sent him, the Lord told him that he should say, "I AM hath sent me unto you." What a wondrous name, "I AM"! Besides denoting eternal being, it is God's pledge of every good thing. Fill it out, child of faith, with the promises of God's word. The Lord says, I am light, and knowledge, and wisdom, and sanctification, and redemption, and life, and love. All fullness is found in the adorable name. Jesus lived and died, and lived again, that all these things might be possible unto us, that we might have free access to the riches of God's grace given in the Name.
THE word of God stands. It will endure all the criticism which is brought against it. Children think that the moon is sailing away through the skies when it is only the clouds. Men think they have moved the rock of the word by their flimsy blows, when the only movement has been their own unconscious rebound farther from the truth. And yet that word, smitten as it has been, like its Divine Author, invites its enemies to come and find pardon, peace, and rest. It still lifts for all the weary desert wanderers "the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." Come, poor sinner, and find pardon. Come, weary one, and rest in the shelter of the Rock of Ages.