The One Saviour

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 31, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, Nos. 43, 44.

JESUS CHRIST our Lord is the hope of the world. Not as a reformer, not as a teacher, not as a prophet, not as a martyr. He was all these, but He was more. "In Him was life." He declared, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:10. "These [the works of Christ] are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through His name." John 20: 31. The great dying world needs life. Poor dying humanity needs life.

Through the reception of the life of Jesus comes righteousness, comes power to prevail over sin, comes victory over all the powers of darkness. He is "the Lord our Righteousness;" He is "Christ our Life." In that life are all other excellencies, all other dignities. He is our Saviour, Teacher, Example, Physician, Friend, Companion all the way. He only is able to "save to the uttermost."

Therefore preach Jesus, the Way, the Truth, the Life. In such preaching, backed home by the Word, rests the salvation of souls, at home and abroad.