p. 143 | Will Ye Also Go Away?

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 31, 1863

Will Ye Also Go Away?

"WILL YE ALSO GO AWAY?"—"Will ye also go away?" said the Saviour to his disciples. "Lord, to whom shall we go?" asked Peter, "Thou hast the words of eternal life." To what teachers should they repair that would be better qualified to instruct them? To what Jewish party could they apply, that they might better learn the way to heaven? To what sect of philosophers should they go, that they might find more consolation in the ills of life, be better supported in its trials, and find more satisfactory answers to those questions which their very nature prompted them to ask? Difficulties their might be in the Christian religion, but where could they find fewer? Mysteries there might be, but where could they go where there were none?

And where will a man go now to find a system that is better fitted to meet the evils of the present world? This is a fair question, and one which it becomes every man to answer for himself. Can sinful, suffering, dying man find a system that will better meet his condition? Will he go to heathenism? to the ancient philosophers? to the modern infidels? Do they propose a better way by which a guilty conscience may become calm, by which life's sorrows may be borne, and by which the pangs of death may be more patiently or triumphantly endured?—Sel.