One Safe Example

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1897

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

One Safe Example.—What a blessed thing to know in these days of peril that we have one safe Example to follow, one safe Teacher upon whom we may rely! He is not affected by the Higher Criticism, or the lower criticism, or Theosophy, or Christian Science, or Modern Spiritualism, or a hundred and one religio-political theories; but he brings to us the truth of God fresh from the ever-living Source every day. His teachings, his Word, is a fountain of life bursting forth for the thirsty. He presents no strange way for us to follow; for the way is his, marked every step with his own blessed footprints. He brings no complex, vague, uncertain system of truth; it is so simple and clear that the little child may accept and rejoice in it, yet so vast and deep that the most profound philosopher can never sound its depths. He asks us to lead no strange life; for the life is his; he has lived it before us and will live it in us. More than this: Our Teacher, our Example, is himself the Way, the Truth, the Life, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, and all days to come. Traveler in this world of uncertainties, follow him. Lost wanderer in the wilds of sin's night, listen to his voice, follow the light which streams from his wounded side. Yea, to all the sin-sick, restless, heart-hungry, lost souls of earth he speaks, "Come unto me, . . . and I will give you rest." They that trust in him "shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end."