The Light of God | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 6, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 18.

The Light of God.

Sometimes the morals of these times are compared with those in past centuries to show how the world has advanced. But past centuries did not have the advantages of education and access to the Source of truth through the Word as at present. God holds men responsible not only according to their deeds, but according to the light used or rejected. At the beginning of this century, the cheapest Bible cost over one dollar, and a New Testament twenty-eight cents, while throughout the greater portion of the world the Book was entirely unknown. Now the British and Foreign Bible Society provides a whole English Bible for sixpence (twelve cents), a New Testament for a penny (two cents), any one of the four Gospels for a half-penny (one cent), while it gives every year thousands of copies, without money and without price, to all who can not pay for it. No century of earth ever had the light as has this century. How has it been used?