Life and Immortality

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 14, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 11.

Life and Immortality

1. Who is the source of life?

For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring. Acts 17:28.

For with Thee is the fountain of life: in Thy light shall we see light. Ps. 36:9.

2. How is it obtained by the sinner?

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16.

3. Who only is immortal?

Who [God] only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. 1 Tim. 6:16.

4. Is man mortal or immortal?

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. Rom. 5:12.

5. What is man's duty regarding immortality?

To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life. Rom. 2:7.

6. Through whom only can it come to him?

But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel. 2 Tim. 1:10.

7. When does He bestow it?

Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 1 Cor. 15:51-53.

Students might be collected for the school. Land has been offered us at one or two other places." There are many open doors; but as in the Master's time, laborers are few.

A CHURCH at Kalispell, Montana, has been organized, consisting of sixteen members. Seven or eight others are obeying the Sabbath truth. Five at Stevensville have been received into church-membership subject to baptism.

At Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Sister Mary Baxter has been rewarded by seeing three souls baptized into the faith as the result of her labors. Five others will soon be baptized. At Ketchum, where sixteen united with the church some time ago, quite a number have been added lately.

THE following item regarding the work at Cholo, Nyasaland, Africa, is quoted from a letter written by Pastor Joel C. Rogers: "God has given us two central training schools, with twenty-five out-schools and a thousand pupils, young and old and middle-aged. To help us in teaching these thousand, many of whom have never heard the Word of God, He has given us fifty native teachers and assistants."

Speaking personally of his devoted wife, he gives an incident which is typical of what many persons with a nervous temperament would call a great sacrifice: "Think of what it has meant to one constituted as she is, to plunge into oblivion in Central Africa; and to-day camping twenty miles from any other white human being, living in a house of poles and grass, and lions roaring on the surrounding hills at night." But in her own words she says: "I am content absolutely, and thank the Lord I am getting the language. I shall do more than simply speak it; I will write and translate it."