POWER FROM OUTSIDE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 28, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 26.

POWER FROM OUTSIDE.

MEN seem to be the only created things that utilize power outside themselves. Our civilization grows by the outside forces that we summon to our aid. Steam transports us, electricity carries our thoughts afar, steel bears the lashing of wind and water, in war we are helpless except with equipment. Hearts and morals are just as dependent on outside forces as bodies, but the power by which they are civilized is as much higher than steam or electricity as our hearts—it is God Himself. There is as much likelihood that a man will make an increasingly good life by himself as that he could swim the Atlantic by himself. Failures often keep us away from achievement, sins separate us from good, when God is just the outside force we need to turn weak resolves into stalwart deeds, and replace sins with purity. We need a Saviour more than we need houses, guns, and transportation.—S. S. Times.