p. 9 | Salvation by Sunday School Times

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Sep 17, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 36.

Salvation

By Sunday School Times

SALVATION is too big a thing to be within any man's power. Yet it is within every man's reach on one condition; namely, that he will accept it as a gift, and be true to the Giver. What we can not do, we can have. We can not make a character, but God will make one in us. Our very inability is God's opportunity. If God were not involved, it would be otherwise; we could then work out our own salvation. Only in that case there would be no salvation worth speaking of. The end of it all would be gone. The very ideal of it would dry out and decay. But introduce God, and at once salvation becomes the restoration of the soul to Him, and the only power of salvation becomes His power, who will do for us what we can only attempt to do for ourselves at the cost of increasing God's task in saving us.