None but Jesus | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 20, 1864

None but Jesus.

A LITTLE more than thirty years ago, one of England's greatest men—eminent alike as a scholar, an elegant writer, and a statesman—lay on his death-bed.

He breathed with great difficulty; and when one by his bed-side spoke to him of the love of Christ, he answered, slowly, pausing after each word—"Jesus Christ—love—the same thing," while a smile of exquisite sweetness played on his features.

After a long silence he said, "I believe—" "In God?" asked one suggestively. "In Jesus," was his calm reply.

He never spoke again except to say—in answer to the inquiry how he felt—"Happy." Such was the last scene in the life of Sir James Mackintosh, the essayist, jurist, statesman, philanthropist, associate of Wilberforce, and classmate and friend of Robert Hall.

One of the greatest minds of his own, or any age, was peaceful and "happy" in the faith of Jesus—to him the incarnation of Divine love.

He had studied the literature of all ages. He was familiar with the great writers of Greece, and Rome, and England, and even the learning of India.

His own history of philosophy shows us the vast range of his reading.

But as the needle turns to the pole, so his mind turned at last toward the pole star of our common Christian faith.

He found in all the clustered constellations of intellectual greatness that crowded the firmament of time, only one "Star of Bethlehem."—N. Y. Observer.