ONE MEDIATOR | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 10, 1900

ONE MEDIATOR.

THANK God that Jesus Christ is accessible to every soul. Common souls could not reach the czar of Russia, the kaiser of Germany, or the queen of Britain without influential friends to introduce them. Men have thought that God was like themselves, and so have fixed up the doctrine of intercession of saints.

Do we wish God's favor? We are told to ask the priest to ask the Virgin to ask Jesus to grant us favor. The Catholic Mirror, speaking of the Virgin Mary, says that "the same assurances that she is influential with Him, makes all Catholics, princes or peasants, educated or simple, European or American, seek the intercessions of the holiest, fairest, and tenderest of women."

But our God is love; He is merciful and compassionate, and all the love or pity the Virgin Mary ever had, all that any saint ever had, was given them of God through Jesus Christ. We may come to Him boldly. He will in no-wise cast us out. He is the Shepherd that seeks the sheep. He is the Shepherd that died for them. He is the great High Priest that pleads for them; all love for souls that any heart possesses was born of Him. How could He be influenced for us? He can not be. He is always for us. He always will be. His words are as true now as when He walked the earth: "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest."