IN THE NAME OF CHRIST

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 11, 1880

IN THE NAME OF CHRIST.

An illiterate countryman sold a lot of fire wood to a gentleman in the city. When the wood was delivered, the gentleman gave him a check upon a certain bank. The countryman looked at it for a while, and then said, "This is not money." "But, if you take it to the bank," replied the gentleman, "it will get you the money." "I have no money in the bank," remarked the countryman. "Very true," answered the gentleman, "but go with that piece of paper to the bank, hand it to the man behind the counter, and when he sees my name upon it, he will instantly give you the money."

When the countryman went to the bank, authorized to use the name of the gentleman, it was the same as if the gentleman himself had gone, for the name stood for the person, and the two were, for the time and the purpose to be accomplished, but one. If it had not been for the name, the countryman might have begged, and entreated, and prayed for the money, until handed over to the police; but the name, the name alone, secured him audience and acceptance.

When we pray in the name of Jesus, we go to God, conscious of the fact that we deserve nothing on our own account; that we have no personal worthiness to plead; that our application for the sake of anything in us, or anything done by us, would be utterly unavailing; but equally conscious of the blessed fact that, through infinite riches of grace, we are one with Christ.—Selected.