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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 19, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 9, No. 16.

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Salvation.

By Law

SALVATION! Blessed be God that our fallen earth has heard the joyful sound! Reader, blessed be the grace that brought it to your ears. Multitudes of man's family are strangers to it. But thrice blessed be the Spirit's love, if it is the sweetest melody which charms you—the loudest note by day and by night of your unwearied praise! To multitudes it is a toneless cymbal.
Salvation! It peoples the many mansions of our heavenly kingdom. It is the bliss of the ever blissful. It is the joy of the ever joyful. It is the happiness of the ever happy. It is the song of the ever singing. It is the peace of the ever peaceful. It is the rest of the ever resting. It is the glory of the ever glorified. Oh my soul! See to it that you are saved.
Salvation! It is a roll written by Jehovah's pen. It is the decree of divine councils, the fruit of Omniscient mind, the first-born of unmeasured love, the perfection of eternal thought, the strength of Omnipotence. It is the fabric which every attribute of God erected with concurring hand; in which every stone is brought by mercy, and shaped by wisdom, and laid by grace; in which there is no defect—no blemish, no decay. It is the soul-built temple which will rise and shine in the growing splendor, through all ages. Oh my soul! See to it that you are saved.
Salvation! It is the work for which Jesus was born in Bethlehem, and lived on earth, and died on Calvary, and descended into the grave, and burst the bonds of death, and mounted to heaven and sits at the hand of God. For this he drank the deepest cup of wrath and torment. For this he grappled with all the powers of darkness.
It is the work for which the Spirit seeks our earth, and knocks at the barred entrance of the sinner's heart. For this he assaults the fortress of self-love, and reveals the perils of sin, and wrestles with ignorance and vain excuses. For this he strives until the arms of rebellion fall, and the contrite soul flees to the cross and embraces Jesus—the risen Saviour, and shelters in the sure refuge of his words. Oh my soul! See to it that you are saved.
Salvation! It is the first message which mercy uttered to a ruined world. It is the end of every prophecy, the purport of every precept, the beauty of every promise, the truth of every sacrifice, the substance of every rite, the song of every inspired lip, the longing desire of every renewed heart, the beacon which guides through the voyage of life, the haven to which the tides of grace convey, the end of faith, the full light of hope, the home of love. Oh my soul! See to it that you are saved.—Law.