OUR JESUS by Adelaide D. Wellman

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 3, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 14.

OUR JESUS.

By Adelaide D. Wellman

THE “sons of one Sceva” once assayed to do in the name of the “Jesus whom Paul preacheth,” such works as they had seen that apostle do. Verily, Paul preached the true Jesus, and thru His name accomplished marvelous things; yet the attempts of these men to imitate Paul's course resulted disastrously.

In sooth, the “Jesus whom Paul preacheth,” or the Jesus whom our pastor preaches, or the Jesus whom some evangelist preaches, will never set His seal to our drafts on heaven's resources, until He is to us something else than the Jesus whom some one preaches. He must be our Jesus, our all and in all—in all our acts, in all our purposes. We must ourselves know Him; not simply know of Him, but personally know Him, whom to know is life eternal.

Become acquainted with God! Know His character, know His will regarding you, know the power of His grace, know the comfort of His love. Then, indeed, like Paul, you will speak the name of Jesus “in demonstration of the spirit and of power.”

ADELAIDE D. WELLMAN.