p. 3 | God with Us

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 6, 1865

God with Us.

THERE is nothing like the consciousness of Immanuel for men that are fighting the battles of life. Give me, of all mottoes, "God with me." Oh that I might write on my child's cradle, "Immanuel—God with us." Oh that I might write it on the threshold of every child's entrance into wedded life, "Immanuel—God with us."

Oh that I might write it on the garments that my child wears, so that they should flame all over to the eyes of faith the same motto, "Immanuel—God with us." Oh that I might write it on every book and task, "God with us." Oh that it might be inscribed on every fear and sorrow, "God with us."

I would see gleaming in the first light of the morning those words, "God with us;" and at evening, when the sun goes in glory to his rest, I would have borne back to my eyes upon its last rays the same words, "God with us." And in the silence of the night I would still have running through my mind the thought of "God with us." Always and everywhere I would have for my motto, "Immanuel." And every man who has this reality will feel, "What lack I! If God be for us, who can be against us?"