p. 16 | The Common Salvation

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 23, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 20.

The Common Salvation

The most precious things, yet the things least prized, are the great common things. What would we do without the common air and common sunshine, the common water and common food? We take them all as a matter of course, oftentimes grumble if they do not suit our mood. Yet if we were deprived of any one for a little time we would die. A little food or air or light is more precious than all the gold of Ophir or gems of Golconda. Our continued hope of existence is in the continuation of these common things from the hand of our God. And, too, more important than all these, is "the common salvation" in Christ Jesus, offered alike to all, irrespective of race or class or age or sex. Yet that "common salvation," purchased for us at an infinite price, with its simple terms and conditions, is slighted most of all.