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Bible Comfort

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 13, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 3.

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Bible Comfort.

WHEN Dr. Watts was almost worn out and broken down by his infirmities, he observed, in conversation with a friend: "I remember an aged minister used to say that the most learned and knowing Christians, when they come to die, have only the same plain promises of the gospel for their support, as the common and unlearned; and so," said he, "I find it. It is the plain promises of the gospel that are my support; and I bless God they are plain promises, that do not require much labor and pains to understand them; for I can do nothing now but look into my Bible for some promise to support me, and live upon that."
This was likewise the case with the pious and excellent Mr. Hervey. He writes about two months before his death: "I now spend almost my whole time in reading and praying over the Bible." And again, near the same time, to another friend: "I am now reduced to a state of infant weakness, and given over by my physician. My grand consolation is to meditate on Christ; I am hourly repeating those heart-reviving lines of Dr. Young:
*"This—only this—subdues the force of death, And what is this? Survey the wondrous cure, And at each step let higher wonder rise! 1. Pardon for infinite offense!—2. And pardon Through the means that speak its value infinite!
  1. A pardon bought with blood!—4. With blood Divine.
  2. With blood Divine of Him I made my foe!
  3. Persisted to provoke!—7. Though woo'd and aw'd,
Bless'd and chastis'd, a flagrant rebel still!—
  1. A rebel 'midst the thunders of His throne.
  2. Nor I alone!—10. A rebel universe!—
  3. My species un in arms!—12. Not one exempt!—
  4. Yet for the foulest of the foul He dies!
  5. Most joy'd for the redeem'd from deepest gulf!
  6. As if our race were held of highest rank,
And Godhead dearer, as most kind to man."*