p. 16 | The Gospel Alone Stops Sin

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 12, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 19.

The Gospel Alone Stops Sin

SAYS a writer in the Occident of February 22: "Man needs laws, courts, judges, locks, jails, gibbets; and yet no single nation on the face of the earth has ever found these effectual to stop man from sinning." Well, they were never designed to stop men from sinning. The only thing which will stop men from sinning is the gospel of Jesus Christ. Law can do nothing but prevent overt acts. Sin is in the heart, and only the gospel of Christ can eliminate it. Civil law is only designed to restrain incivility and to protect every man in his rights.