p. 675 | To Whom Shall We Go? by William M. Taylor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 13, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 43.

To Whom Shall We Go?

By William M. Taylor

WHEN the prophets of our modern materialism are asking us to leave the company of Christ's disciples, we make reply, "To whom shall we go? Find us a better answer to the questionings of our spirit than He has furnished. Show us a better ideal of manhood than He has given. Bring us a better testimony to the life beyond the grave than He has borne, and let us see in the cold realm of your negations a love for human creatures such as He has enkindled in the hearts of his followers, and a willingness like theirs to spend and be spent in offices of benevolence. In one word, give us something better than the Christ of these gospels, and then we may accept it; but till then cease your importunity, for your enticements to forsake him are in vain." Till then! ah, what irony has unconsciously escaped me! for never can such a demand be met. Four thousand years the world tried in vain to return to God, and now that he has come to be himself the way, we will not give him up for a negation. Go, then, with your everlasting No, to those who have no sin, no sorrow, no trial, no temptations—they may accept it if they will; but for us "None but Christ;" he has spoken to us the words of eternal life, and we cannot, we will not leave him, for we know that he will not deceive us.—Dr. W. M. Taylor.