CHRIST OUR PATTERN

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 31, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 22.

CHRIST OUR PATTERN.

THE people of God are used in this world as living examples of the glorious Gospel of Jesus. His life of innocence was a rebuke to the hypocrite; His self-denial was a rebuke to the self-indulgent; His purity was a constant reproof to the vile and unclean who served their own lusts; His simplicity and plainness of manner and dress was a rebuke to the proud, arrogant ones. So the follower of Christ will, in his manner of life and devotion to his Master, be a constant example of the heavenly Pattern. This lost world has no other source of deliverance from its sins and sorrows, its guilt and pollution, but in the Christ who made Himself of no reputation, that all men might be saved.

Then, in Jesus' name and for His sake, do not put a stumbling-block in the way of precious souls, by conforming to any of the customs of this vain world; but let your manner, your attire, your business dealings, your whole life exemplify the lowly Nazarene, who took upon Himself the form of a servant. Then will He be lifted up and all men be drawn to Him.—Selected.