THE SILENT POWER | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1880

THE SILENT POWER.

“THE mightiest force in all the universe,” says Alexander Maclaren, “is the force which has neither speech nor language. The parent of all physical force, as astronomers seem to be more and more teaching us, is the great central sun which moveth all things, which operates all physical changes, whose beams are all but omnipotent, and yet fall so quietly that they do not disturb the motes that dance in the rays. Thunder and lightning are child’s play compared with the energy that goes to make the falling dews and quiet rains. The power of the sunshine is the root-power of all force which works in material things. And so we turn, with the symbol in our hands, to the throne of God, and when he says, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ we are aware of an energy, the signature of whose might is its quietness, which is omnipotent because it is gentle and silent.” How often have we seen in the trembling limbs and the rolling tears, and heard in the faltering, quivering, broken cries for mercy, unmistakable evidences of that silent energy!—Christian Standard.