p. 180 | WHAT IS THAT TO THEE? by C. N. Stuttle

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 18, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 12

WHAT IS THAT TO THEE?

By C. N. Stuttle

BY C. N. STUTTLE.

We believe that the Bible was given to man that he might be instructed in the ways of all wisdom; and that he might learn to love and obey the commandments of Him who by his word made the heavens, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

The question is sometimes asked, “What will become of the heathen, who know nothing of the Bible, and of the commandments of God?” And again, “Do you Adventists believe that all those who do not keep the seventh-day Sabbath will be lost?” Please turn to Paul’s epistle to the Romans, chap. 2:12, 13, where we think both questions are satisfactorily answered.

Again we read in James 2:10, “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” And Christ himself assures us that “whosoever shall break one of these least commandments, and teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of Heaven.” Matt. 5:19. Will Martin Luther, John Wesley, and other great reformers and worthy men who did not keep the seventh-day Sabbath, be saved? We believe that these men

had a message to deliver to the world, that they lived up to all the light that was given them, and that they will be accepted accordingly. Had they been favored with the light which we have to-day, and had not walked therein, great would be their condemnation; for Christ tells us that he who knows the Master’s will, and does it not, shall be beaten with many stripes, and he who knows it not shall receive but few stripes.

The time has fully come when the people of God should obey the command, “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.” Isa. 58:1.

Knowledge has been increased, and light upon the prophecies, pointing us to a soon-coming Redeemer. Let us put away every unclean thing, keep the commandments of God, and have the faith of Jesus, that we may abide in Christ’s love, even as he has kept his Father’s commandments, and abides in his love. John 15:10.

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