The Poor Flock by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 17, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 45.

The Poor Flock.

By Editor

Here is a specimen of the religious wisdom which is doled out to its readers by a religious paper [Free Methodist, Chicago, May 23]:—

"The Bible plainly teaches that the heathen can be saved without the gospel. It as plainly teaches that the Jew may be saved without the gospel."

How is this done? Why:—

"In regard to the heathen, Paul, in Rom. 2:13-15, says, . . . 'When the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law,' such 'are a law unto themselves.'"

Of the Jew it is said that he has

"'A revelation of the law—the moral law that points out the path of duty—and a system of religious forms and ceremonies by which to make atonement for disobedience. These were divinely given and were therefore a ground for justification.'"

The word of God declares that God's gospel is in all his works. Compare Ps. 19:1-4 with Rom. 10:18. But in the created works of God is "Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God" revealed, (Rom. 1:20; Col. 1:16), for it was through Christ that all the work was wrought. He is "the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." "For there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." The poor heathen who comes to any knowledge of God and receives it with all his heart, even though he may never have heard the name "Jesus," is as truly saved by the gospel of Jesus Christ as is the nineteenth-century Christian. And because of this will all the redeemed throng ascribe to the Lamb "blessing and honor and glory and power" "forever and ever." Praise God for the all-sufficient Saviour and the universal gospel. "What is the chaff to the wheat?"