The Old Paths by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 22, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 21.

The Old Paths.

By Editor

THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES stands for the “old paths.” It knows no other guide to life save the Holy Scriptures.

It can find no other moral standard than that spoken of God by His own voice, engraved with His own finger on tables of stone, the Ten Words of His government. Prophets, apostles, and Jesus Christ found that standard sufficient, why is it not sufficient now?

THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES knows no other salvation than that of Jesus Christ, the atoning Sacrifice for men, the Saviour of men. Redeemed by His blood, saved by His life, kept by His power—He is an all-sufficient Saviour. In His preexistence, in His incarnation, in His vicarious atonement, in His literal resurrection, in His effective priesthood, in His coming again to gather His own, and to take to Himself His great power and reign, we find “the old paths,” “the good way.”

“The old paths” were paths of life to those who walked in them. They developed great, strong, glorious characters. They led from the slime of sin and want and wretchedness and wo and misery of this world to the glorious upland heights of the kingdom of God, where glows the eternal sunshine of His love. They have borne the test of the ages, and not one trusting soul has been deceived. It is God’s living, vitalized truth still, able to create, if necessary, all things needful to the doer of God’s will. “Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.” The good way is found in these days, as of yore, in “the old paths.” Blessed are they who heartily respond to the Master’s call.