A Good Motto by J. H. H.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 27, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 42.

A Good Motto

By J. H. H.

We are a motto-loving nation. Mottos, mottos, everywhere, good ones and poor ones, religious ones and profane and silly ones! But would not the latter part of the twenty-sixth verse of John 14 be a good motto to hang where we study the Word? "He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."

How often we read and read, and see only the printed page! Almost ready to give up, unable to get the meaning, we plead with God to fulfil His promise made in that verse, and lo, a light pierces the darkness of our mind! We then again realize that His promise is true, and that the Holy Spirit helps us understand. Nevertheless we are puzzled that the meaning, now so plain, seemed so mysterious before. Let us write out the motto, by all means, and then let us hang it in our hearts. J. H. H.