p. 7 | THE POWER OF THE WORD

Pacific Press Publishing Company · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA · Nov 14, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 44.

THE POWER OF THE WORD.

THIS is the way the "sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God," operates to put down crime and reform criminals:

"A Japanese evangelist held a series of mission meetings in an important town in Japan for Christians and inquirers after Christianity. There were some remarkable confessions of sin. One young man of twenty, an inquirer, confessed that four years previously he had set fire to a house, had done various petty pilfering, and caused the death of two children. He boldly went to the police station and told the whole story, including the fact that through the power of the Gospel of Christ he had been led to confess. He is a railway telegraph operator, and now spends all his spare time going from place to place on the railway, telling of the Gospel of the grace of God."

No doubt many people will scoff at the idea of such a man becoming a Christian, and especially at his being a missionary. But in the great judgment day, when the secret acts of all and the secret thoughts of all hearts will be laid bare, how many scoffers will appear in any better light? It is not past life, but the obedience of faith in Christ, that saves men.