IT COSTS ALL | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 6, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 10.

IT COSTS ALL.

JESUS said: "Whosoever he be that forsaketh not all that he hath can not be My disciple." To receive Christ, we must give up self. This is well illustrated by a story told in the Sunday School Times on the authority of Mr. H. H. Crawford:

The Rev. John McDowell told at Northfield last summer of an express train which started out from Chicago for the Pacific Coast. On board was the president of the road. As they rushed along in the darkness of the night the train was wrecked. The president of the road hurried to the front. The engineer was pinned beneath the engine. As the president stood looking at the prostrate form, he saw his lips move, and leaning down, he heard the dying man say, "I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day." "Jim," said the president, "I would be willing to give my life with all that I have for such a faith as that." "Mr. President," said Jim, "THAT IS JUST WHAT IT COSTS."

He who knows self emptiness, knows Christ's fulness.