APPLES OF GOLD LIBRARY by Milton C. Wilcox

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jun 27, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 26.

APPLES OF GOLD LIBRARY.

By Milton C. Wilcox

"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in baskets of silver." PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO. No. 47. Oakland, Cal., November, 1897 10c per Year.

THE GREAT THREE-FOLD MESSAGE

GOD'S REMEDY FOR THE ILLS OF CHRISTENDOM.

BY M. C. WILCOX.

GOD'S plan for saving sinful men has ever been the same. With Him "is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." Human nature has ever been the same, variable, inconstant, weak.

God's means of saving men is "the everlasting Gospel" of His grace. Whatever the condition of humanity, the Gospel of Christ has ever been effectual to save. It ever has been, as it still is, "the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth." Rom. 1:16. It was preached to Abel, to Noah, to Abraham, to Israel of old, even as it has been preached since the first advent of our Lord. Heb. 11:1-8; Gal. 3:15; Heb. 4:2. Acceptance of that Gospel has always been manifest in "repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." Acts 20:21. The fruit of its faith is obedience; it is "the faith which worketh by love" (Gal. 5:6), the love which keeps all of God's commandments. 1 John 5:3.

Types and shadows have changed, but the holy