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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 16, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 49.

Editorial.

By Editor

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

THE loving soul can be trusted. When we love God with all the heart, he will trust us with greater blessings.

THE trials of the future, however great they may be, are best met by faithfully enduring the trials of the present, however small they may be. We cannot store up grace to-day to meet to-morrow's trials. God is a present help. If faith makes him that each present moment, we need not trouble ourselves about the future.

FAITH, and faith alone, as we have many times said, is the only condition which God requires of man in order to salvation. "What shall I do to be saved?" asks the sinner. "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved," answers the apostle. Faith includes all else. Faith will lead the soul to respond to the Spirit, to submit to God, to choose God's way, the way of salvation through Christ. Genuine faith is all that is needed, but genuine faith will express itself in works. It cannot do otherwise.

WE lose much in failing to keep constantly in mind the momentary account God takes of all our relations to him. We sometimes get to feeling that God is afar off, and then we come to perform the duties and relations of our calling with the sense of this distance of separation in mind. The nearer we can realize God to be, the more minutely we can consider that he interests himself in all our doings, the better service shall we be able to render. "As the Lord of Hosts liveth before whom I stand," was the thought with which Elijah strengthened his soul to stand before the wicked Ahab. He stood before the Lord, as though God sat on his throne, literally in Elijah's presence, and Elijah performed all his labor under the smile of his Lord's countenance and under the beaming approbation of his all-seeing eye. It was thus Elijah labored. It was this living, abiding consciousness of God's presence that made him strong and unswerving. This consciousness, this evidence of God in us and God with us, will nerve us for all the conflicts. We shall labor as in his sight, as though we could actually see him in form and feature. This is our privilege, this will prove our strength and source of power.