Men or God by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 20, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 51.

Men or God.

By Editor

It seems too bad to have such a splendid teacher of spiritual truth as is Dr. Alexander MacLaren, of England, close an especially forceful, practical paragraph on Mal. 3:13, with the expression, "So thinks Malachi." Malachi probably thought in harmony with the message he bore; we will not dispute that. But what he brought was not his thoughts, but God's message. It is true that Malachi wrote, and so did Isaiah, and Paul, and others; but the word—and this is vital to the individual soul, vital to vigorous, growing faith—is God's word; the message is God's message. It need not concern us what Paul thought, or what Malachi thought, but what does God say?