THE REMEDY, THE GOSPEL.
By Editor
IT was pointed out, in our last issue, that the divine remedy for the divisions of Christendom was the everlasting Gospel, as set forth in the message of Rev. 14:6, 7: "Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come; and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." "The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom." All fear of man vanishes in its presence. It brings the great God, His awful majesty, His holy requirements, as the all-important things, before the soul. What is all else in comparison! What if all the works of man fail! What if creeds and societies and plans and platforms and confessions wither and perish! The soul has God, and what more is needed? "Give glory to Him," not to men. To hold, in one jot or tittle, to human creeds and human requirements, when these are contrary to God's written Word, is to give glory to men instead of to God. To look to men to devise some way out of the Babylon of creeds, instead of seeking to God's Word, is to give glory to men instead of to God. To honor and exalt human devisings, "science falsely so called" (never settled, never at agreement), is to render worship, honor, service to the creature rather than to the Creator. To obey the laws of men, when they conflict with the law of God, rather than walk in the way of God's commandments, is to worship man rather than the God who made the heaven and the earth. Men may be in error and accepted of God, but there are no half-way stations in principle. God demands the whole heart. Following error has led many honest in heart, true in principle, unswerving in purpose, into Babylon. Many have been born there. Many more are there, a veritable, constituent part of Babylon through compromise of principle. By the message of the everlasting Gospel God is calling them out. He is calling those true to principle away from the creeds of men to His own Word. He is calling the compromisers of principle to the eternal principles of His law and the dread realities of His judgment. He is calling to everlasting good tidings of salvation. What the rejection of this call means we will consider in our next.