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Review and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 14.

ANOTHER NEW TRACT—NOW READY

Review and Herald

Apr 7, 1903

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 7, 1903

ANOTHER NEW TRACT—NOW READY

By Editor

The Perpetuity of the Law of God

BY THE NOTED C. H. SPURGEON
The above cut is a reduced facsimile of the first cover-page of this new tract. It is number 40 of the Words of Truth Series, and is the same size as the last four new tracts, numbers 36, 37, 38, 39, of this series. It is composed of one of Spurgeon's sermons on the perpetuity of the law of God, written in two parts. The full tract was printed in the last two issues of the REVIEW in order that our readers may see the soundness and the present importance of the facts Spurgeon gives to the world, relative to the abiding nature of the law of God, and to induce them to join us in an earnest, continued effort to place this tract in as many homes as possible.
While it does not mention the Sabbath as an institution, in the complete establishment of the perpetuity of the law it fixes the question of the Sabbath in the minds of all who read it, and it does it without controversy. It is, therefore, an excellent tract to use to bring the Sabbath question prominently before the people.
It is a tract that will not create prejudice, but will be welcomed and appreciated by the great majority of people, on account of the popularity of the author.
It is the best thing on the subject of the law that any of our publishing houses has ever produced. The language is simple, clear, forcible, and convincing. Any one reading the tract can not avoid being impressed with the conviction that the law of God is perpetual.
“You will all want to obtain a supply of tract No. 40 of the Words of Truth Series,—‘The Perpetuity of the
Law of God,’—by C. H. Spurgeon. The great English preacher treats this momentous subject in a masterly manner, and his argument carries conviction with it, his language having all that clearness and force for which he was noted. He makes the absolute certainty of the law's perpetuity stand out like a mountain looming out of the sea, so that no unprejudiced mind, even though unlearned, can fail to see it. This tract ought to win multitudes to the truth which is so vital a part of the third angel's message.”
Order of Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich., or the State Tract Societies.
The picture below is a reduced copy of the portrait of the author, printed on the second page of the tract.
The name of Charles Haddon Spurgeon is well known among the members of every denomination, and throughout the world at large. He was acknowledged to be the greatest of English preachers in his time. His opinion is regarded as good authority in theological science.
Beginning his work as a Baptist minister in his sixteenth year, 1850, in Cambridge, England, he continued a faithful, devoted, and powerful ministry until his death in 1892. So great was this man of God that thousands of all classes flocked into his church at every service, and every sermon was published, and thousands of copies sent broadcast to various parts of the earth. His words contained in our tract on the perpetuity of the law of God will do a mighty work in the land to-day if they can be placed in the homes of the people.

Translation Faith

By Editor

Editorial

Translation Faith

WE know that “Enoch was translated that he should not see death,” and the basis for this extraordinary experience is stated to be that “before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” There is only one way, however, in which it is possible to please God. “Without faith it is impossible to please him.” That faith which enabled Enoch to please God made his translation possible. But the kind of faith which enables one to please God and makes translation possible is thus defined: “For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” It is not enough simply to believe in the existence of God. “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.” To acknowledge that there is a God is to do no more than the devil does. We must believe in the character of God as revealed in his Word, and our faith must be that genuine kind which appropriates that character as bestowed upon us in the gift of Jesus the Saviour. This is the only basis for a life well pleasing to God. “This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” This is translation faith, and a people who are preparing for translation must have just this faith. The fruit of this faith will be seen in obedience to all the commandments of God. This is the faith which will establish the law of God. This message will prepare a people to be translated without seeing death. The faith of this message is of that quality which enables one to please God, and this is the preparation for translation. This is the faith concerning which Jesus inquired, “When the Son of man cometh, shall he find the faith on the earth?” In this time when doubt and unbelief are sweeping so many from their foundation, we must hold fast to the faith which we have, and so exercise it that it may grow. Translation faith ought to be the faith of this people. This will give present victories, and prepare the way for the final triumph.
“Lord, give me such a faith as this, And then, whate’er may come, I’ll taste e’en here the hallowed bliss Of an eternal home.”

Life by Believing

LIFE is the gift of God. With God is the fountain of life. “As the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have life in himself.” Concerning his errand to this world, Jesus said, “I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.” Life comes to man only in and through the Son. We lay hold of God’s gift of life by receiving the gift of his Son. “God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.” Faith is the only faculty bestowed upon us by means of which we can thus deal with life. Through faith we can understand the provision which God has made for life in his Son. Through faith we can receive the Son as our life. Through faith we can maintain our hold upon the life which we have thus received. To say that we have life in ourselves is to profess that we are equal to God. To say that we shall live as long as God lives, independent of the gift of life in his Son, is to make gods of ourselves. To say that man is immortal regardless of character, and that the gift of God is happiness rather than life, is to contradict the plainest teaching of the Scriptures. “The wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.” The signs recorded in the Gospel of John are written for the express purpose of furnishing a solid foundation for the faith which receives Jesus as the life. “Many other signs therefore did Jesus in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book: but these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that [by] believing ye may have life in his name.” The faith which recognizes the man Christ Jesus as the divine Son of God accepts as a personal experience the fact that divinity has been united with humanity, and this brings the believer into fellowship with the heavenly current of life. God offers us the gift of his own life through his Son as our righteousness, to be received by believing. It is simply glorious and gloriously simple. “O, believe, and receive, and confess him!”

The Coming King—No 2

Taking up further signs, our Lord said, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days,” referring to the time of special tribulation of the Dark Ages, “the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” And then he gave them the parable which we shall soon see spoken again in this coming spring season: “Now from the fig tree learn her parable: when her branch is now become tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know that the summer is nigh; even so ye also, when ye see all these things, know ye that he is nigh, even at the doors. . . . This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished.”
These definite signs began with the darkening of the sun in 1780, the moon being darkened the same night. The falling of the stars in 1833 marked the definite time when it should be known that the hour had arrived when the purpose of God was to be fulfilled. The very year that the stars fell in such a wondrous star shower as to be emphasized as the falling of the stars,—in that very year William Miller was ordained by the Baptists to go forth to preach this message of the coming King. That marked the beginning of this message in a special manner to prepare the way of the coming King. That generationheard the message. The children of that generation are the men and women of to-day, and it is to this people that he says that this generation shall not pass until all be fulfilled. Not that the date has been arbitrarily fixed when all these things will come to pass; but by the work that is to be accomplished, he has very distinctly stated the time of the end.
Then, the purpose of God was to be fulfilled not simply in the signs that could be read in the heavens, but in the giving of the message to all the world to prepare the way of the coming King. And so the message went forth. Now, the word is this, that the generation in which that message was given is the generation in which all these things shall be fulfilled; and the generation that rejected the message, the generation that crucified the message, the generation that treated the message as the Jews treated the message of John the Baptist, when he came as a forerunner to prepare the way of the coming King,—that generation, whose children have grown to manhood and womanhood, will not entirely pass off the stage of action until all these things are accomplished. And some who lived and heard the message in that time will live through to say with the multitude in that day, “Behold the King cometh! all hail the coming King.” This time is not an arbitrary date, but it is a time within which, a generation within which, the time will be fixed only by the zeal of the church. It is within the power of those who believe the message to hasten that day. It is within the power of those who know all these things so to give the message as to bring our Lord speedily. And that is the work to which the watchman is bidden to call a sleeping church. Now—
“O watchman, bid a sleeping church Awake, arise, and pray.”
In this time, this generation, this work under this third angel’s message—the gospel of the kingdom—shall be preached to all the world, and then shall the end come.
Now it is especially important that those who are looking for the fulfillment of these things should be intelligent concerning the time, the circumstances, and the work. Only think that after these thousands of years during which sin has been in the earth, and death has reigned, the day is, as it were, in sight when an end will be put to all this, when he whose right it is to reign will come. It is the blessed hope. This is the hope of the coming King. Now it falls to us to understand it, to take up the work and co-operate with God intelligently in his purpose for this time. But mark this, after the disappointment of 1843-44 there were thousands who could not gather their courage and rest their faith in the Word again, who could not see by faith to proclaim anew with the old-time zeal to all nations, tongues, and kingdoms the coming Lord according to the prophecy, but God raised up those who went forth in that work. Now more than half a century has passed away, and what do we hear?—We hear of scoffers saying, “Where is the promise of his coming?” and even those who have professed to believe the message of his coming are saying in their hearts, “My Lord delayeth his coming.”
Believers should have a very definite answer to give both to scoffers and to the faithless professors. What shall be the answer when scoffers say, “Where is the promise of his coming?” and professed believers say in their hearts, “My Lord delayeth his coming”? Then it is time for those who really believe, to take up the word of the angel that stood upon the earth and the sea, and lifted up his right hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth forever, who created all heavenly things, and things in the earth and in the sea, that “there shall be delay no longer.” The seventh trumpet then is about to sound, the mystery of God is to be finished. Is not this a definite answer to make when the scoffers say, “Where is the promise of his coming”? and when unfaithful professors say, “My Lord delayeth his coming,” then let the people of God take that word, and with great power say, “There shall be delay no longer;” “but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then is finished the mystery of God.” That is the answer to give. “There shall be delay no longer.” How shall we give the answer?—Not simply by taking up a phrase, just some words that we shall speak; but we must say to scoffers and unfaithful professors, by a holy, consecrated zeal in carrying forward this work, that “there shall be delay no longer,” and every mouth will be stopped.

Light in Earth's Dark Corners

By W. A. S.

THE Lord is pressing the light of his Word into the darkest corners of the earth. By the gift of tongues at Pentecost, many nationalities, say two or three score different tongues, heard the word of God. Now God's Word speaks in over four hundred tongues, and Bible distribution agencies are pressing into every darkened land.
While we are putting our own literature into various languages, and selling it to people of other tongues, we must not forget that the Bible, the Book of books, is the direct literature of the message; and by this Bible distribution away beyond the bounds of organized missionary effort, the advent message is being proclaimed. I was glad to find in the West Indies that the directors of the British Bible Society in that part were able to say that our people were the most active of all in selling and distributing God's Word. There is scarcely a land under the heavens, that we could readily name, in whose tongue we have not already the best Book of all, so that without delay workers might be putting the message before the people. All things are prepared for a quick work in our day.
We look on the map of the East Indies, and perhaps most of us might, from our lack of information, conclude that such a country as Borneo, for instance, must be an almost unapproachable land for missionary effort. The light not only of modern progress but of God's Word shines, however, in the least known parts of Borneo.
An agent of the Bible society reports a visit to the southeastern part of that great island, vast portions of which are unexplored. He visited the sultan's city, up the Tangarang River, and found a luxuriously furnished palace, lighted with electricity. Western facilities and inventions are pressing into the dark corners of the earth. Surely it is time to press in with the message that God has given the West for the needy East. The following paragraphs from the Bible worker's report show how good a field for the colporteur may be found in these almost unvisited lands:—
Leaving the palace, I went into the town, where my boy was waiting with my bag of Scriptures; and having obtained the sultan's consent, I began to sell. In a very short time all the copies that I had brought with me from the boat were disposed of. Hiring two men, I had a large box of books carried into the town later on in the day, and met with very much success; for a long time I could not hand out the Malay New Testament portions fast enough to the eager crowd of purchasers.
In the midst of the festivities of the next day the sultan again received me at the palace, and in the name of the society I presented his highness with the best Malay Bible I had. An opportunity was given me of explaining the difference between this and the Koran, and thus I was privileged to speak of Him who is the way, the truth, and the life.
After nearly three months' absence I arrived at home, having left behind among the natives of poor dark Borneo no fewer than 2,880 Bibles, New Testaments, and New Testament portions, besides over one thousand Christian almanacs, in Malay, Javanese, Dyak, Bugis, and Chinese. This seems a large number, yet how few, after all, in comparison with the population and the area! How many parts of this vast island remain as yet utterly unreached! How many people there are who have never heard a syllable about the Saviour's love!
Thus the light breaks into the realms of darkness. The whole world, literally, lies at our feet. Our Lord's command now rings out to us, “Go ye into all the world.” As he has prepared the facilities and opened the doors, even so is he ready now to prepare his people to enter the world's wide gate.
W. A. S.

Editorial Correspondence

By William W. Prescott

OAKLAND, CAL., March 23, 1903.
The meeting of the General Conference is an occasion of much interest to all believers in this message. The representatives of the work in the different fields come together to recount the progress of the work, to compare experiences, to counsel concerning the burdens which weigh on their minds, and to seek a fresh inspiration for future achievement in the rapid spread of the truth.
At every conference there are those present who have just returned from years of absence “in the regions beyond,” and there is thus a reunion of long-separated members of the Lord’s family,—a little foretaste of the great reunion when the redeemed will come to Zion.
It is but natural that the attendance at this conference should be much smaller than at Battle Creek two years ago. The reorganization of the General Conference and the representation by union conferences upon a large numerical basis, instead of by State conferences upon a smaller numerical basis, would in itself reduce the list of delegates. But in addition to this, the location of the gathering in the extreme West has tended to reduce the delegation from the East, and furthermore it was not deemed advisable to call our missionaries from their fields so soon after they had returned to their work. The next conference will doubtless be a world’s missionary conference, with a full delegation from the whole field.
All are thankful that the Lord has spared his aged servant, Sister White, to meet with us again in General Conference. Until within about two weeks she has been greatly weighed down by the heavy burden laid upon her concerning some features of the work, but just recently she has been especially strengthened, and some of the terrible pressure has been lifted from her mind. She has taken a furnished house in Oakland for the use of the family during the conference, and has already come from her home near St. Helena. Those who were present at the last General Conference will remember how much influence her testimony had in shaping the work of that meeting, and we confidently expect that the Lord will still give messages of instruction for his people through his servant.
The friends in Oakland and vicinity are doing all in their power to make the visitors to the Coast welcome. Their homes are opened freely, and a Christian hospitality is shown. The brethren who have charge of general arrangements for the conference are providing everything necessary. The Daily Bulletin will be printed at the Pacific Press office, where their complete equipment will greatly facilitate the work. Brethren W. A. Spicer, M. C. Wilcox, and C. P. Bollman constitute the editorial committee, and they will be supplied with suitable stenographic and editorial assistants.
The first party of delegates and friends arrived in Oakland on Thursday evening, March 19. This week there have been daily arrivals, including some from Australia and the islands of the Pacific. Daily meetings of the General Conference Committee are being held for the auditing of accounts and the necessary preliminary work. The time allotted to the conference is only thirteen days, exclusive of the three Sabbaths, and the time must be used to the best possible advantage in order that proper attention may be given to the various important questions demanding consideration.
We believe that many faithful believers are bearing this conference on their hearts, and that many earnest petitions are being sent up to the Father in heaven for special blessing upon this meeting. This is the Lord’s work, and we must “give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.” W. W. P.

A Perfect Government

By L. A. S.

The only perfect government that ever has existed or ever can exist anywhere is the government of God. This government is established among men through Christianity; and as Christianity is the life of God, the government of God is self-government. God governs himself, and God in any being is a self-governing power. He who has God in him will of his own free will conform to every law of right.
Various systems of self-government have been set up on the earth by men, but the best of them has been far from perfect, because it made no provision, and could make none, for individual self-government. A fault at this point became the root of difficulties which spread through and marred the whole system. In every government that men have devised, where there should have been individual self-government, there has been selfishness, and this selfishness has pervaded the whole government, and has always found means to defeat, to a greater or less extent, the best and most carefully worded provisions designed to safeguard the rights and interests of the people.
In this government of the United States, perhaps the best that men ever devised or could devise, the people are theoretically, wholly free to enjoy the rights of life and liberty, and to engage in the pursuit of happiness. But the reality is widely different from the theory. Though the national Constitution declares that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, save as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall ever be permitted in the United States, there are many slaves in the land, victims of industrial conditions created by greed, or by the warfare of class against class. The story of the wrongs of those oppressed by their fellow men is in every paper. The contest for the rights and privileges which are theoretically secure under this government fills the land with strife and violence. Selfishness is at work, and finds ways to break through and set at naught all the safeguards which constitutions and legal forms can erect about individual rights. Money controls elections, and turns the governments of cities and of States into the most unjust and oppressive channels. Money represents power, and the concentration of wealth gives disproportionate and irresponsible power to a few, who can not resist the temptation to use it for selfish ends.
Many are the remedies proposed for doing away with this discrepancy between theory and practice in American self-government, but they all fall short of the true remedy, because they do not reach the real root of the difficulty. They do not provide for self-government in the heart. Among these proposed remedies one of the most prominent at the present time is socialism. Socialism proposes to cure the national ills by instituting government ownership of railways, coal mines, and other public utilities. The government is to own these things and operate them in the interests of the people; then, it is said, there will be no extortion and unjust discrimination against any, but they will be for the equal benefit of all. But governments become corrupt, and a corrupt government can not be safely trusted to look out for the welfare of the people. Only recently the country was startled by the announcement of the discovery of great frauds in the affairs of the Post-office Department. The control of public franchises and utilities might provide greater opportunities for such evils, and make governmental office a place to be still more eagerly sought by unscrupulous men who would covet such a position as a means of acquiring wealth. This would hasten the corruption of the government, and would only defeat the ends it is designed to serve. The same men who are causing the trouble which exists to-day, would by the same means now employed obtain control of the reins of power, and the same or similar evils would be perpetuated, with only a change of forms and methods.
We have nothing to say against socialism as compared with other political movements or human systems of government. We have nothing to do with comparisons of this sort. But as a remedy for injustice and oppression, it promises more than it is able to perform, and those who trust in it will be deceivedand disappointed.
Human greed for wealth and power will not be balked by a change in governmental forms. The trouble to-day lies not in the form of the government, so much as in the people themselves who complain of injustice and oppression; for those conditions which exist in a “government of the people by the people,” must necessarily be such as the people approve or permit.
Christianity alone can and does reach the root of the whole difficulty, and provides a complete remedy by eradicating selfishness from the heart, and instituting self-government there. It cleanses the fountain head, and thus purifies the whole stream. It is God’s plan of government, and not man’s. A perfect government is to be set up on the earth, and those who will participate in it are being gathered now from all the nations. They are being taught the lesson of self-government, by means of the grace of God, through the gospel. We invite all men to join this government, and through it realize all their highest hopes of success and happiness. L. A. S.

Increasing Light

By L. A. S.

“The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” Prov. 4:18. This is the Christian pathway. It is a pathway of increasing light.
The new light which comes to the Zion-bound traveler is not separate and distinct from the old light. It blends with the old, and the result is a brighter shining of the light in which he has already walked. No light about the Christian’s pathway ever gets dimmer by reason of his approach to “the perfect day.”
The first truth which the Christian accepted is just as bright a truth at the last stage of his journey as it was at the first. No amount of new truth received by him lessens its luster or its importance. On the contrary, with every accession of light the old truth becomes brighter and more essential to his faith. All divine truth, first and last, is a revelation of God, and the effect of each new truth is to make the whole revelation more complete.
But there is a kind of “new light,” so-called, which tends to belittle the old doctrines, and even to throw about them a haze of uncertainty. There is a kind of “new light” which tends to unsettle belief in what were once well-settled points of the faith. This is applicable to the system of doctrine which we call present truth. Has a part of this system now been “outgrown”? or do we see, by the light that shines now, that the message preached by the pioneers in this work was more or less mixed with error? Is it by such views that we assure ourselves that we possess special light by which God would lead us at this time?
Let us beware of all such teaching. Let us beware of “new light” which casts a shadow upon any of the old paths. Let us beware of doctrines which would take away any part of the foundation upon which the last solemn message to the world has so long stood. “Woe to him who shall move a block or stir a pin of these messages. The true understanding of these messages is of vital importance. The destiny of souls hangs upon the manner in which they are received.”—Early Writings, page 121.
Let the new light which we receive be that which makes the old truths brighter. The householder who “is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven,” “bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.” Matt. 13:52. They are not new things alone, but things “new and old,” and in the new light, the old things become new. The truth of God is always new, because it is like God himself. The human mind can never get to the end of it, can never outgrow it. It will gather brightness to the end of time.
The pathway of present truth is a bright pathway from beginning to end. It is a straight pathway, with no turning to shut off the radiance from the throne set up at its termination. When the pathway behind us becomes obscured, it is evidence that we have fallen into some other way than that which terminates at the gates of the heavenly city.
L. A. S.

Dangers of Hypnotism

The following news item which comes from Monmouth, Ill., should furnish an object lesson on the danger of dabbling in such modern occult “sciences” as hypnotism, now fast becoming popular in this country: “Driven insane by lessons in hypnotism, Mrs. Marshall Mink raves to-night about the fiery furnace and the imps she imagines are thrusting her into the red-hot coals. Her husband has been saved from a threatened condition of like nature only by the most arduous labors of local hypnotists and physicians. The wife was declared insane this afternoon, and will be taken to the asylum at Watertown in the morning. Mr. and Mrs. Mink are residents of Warren County. Both have been taking lessons in hypnotism through letters from a hypnotist in Jackson, Mich. The last lesson came Wednesday, and was entitled ‘You Are Going to Sleep.’ The husband and wife studied the lesson for a considerable time, and both were strangely affected by what they read.”

Note and Comment

NEW HAMPSHIRE, the second State in the Union to adopt prohibition, has now, after fifty years' trial of the system, abandoned it for “high license.” In some places in the State the prohibitory law was enforced, and in others it was not. The law was good, but public opinion did not sufficiently support it, and without such support a statute has no power. Prohibition upon the statute books without prohibition in the hearts of the people, proved to be a failure. The real battle for temperance must be fought out where all Christian battles are fought; that is, in the hearts of the people. Christian education will be found better in the cause of temperance than a prohibitory law.

Magistrate Crane Defends Sunday Sellers

CITY Magistrate Crane, of New York City, recently had occasion to express his sentiments regarding the work of a zealous clergyman whose constant endeavor was to compel people in his neighborhood, by means of the arm of the civil power, to observe Sunday as the Sabbath. A policeman having brought before the magistrate a Jewish peddler accused of Sunday selling, and having stated that the arrest had been made at the instance of a minister who “was continually making complaints” against such individuals, the magistrate said:—
Send that minister to me. I want to talk religion to him. Possibly I can tell him a thing or two. These men make a living by selling their wares; some of them have large families to support, and this is the only means they have to keep bread and butter in their mouths. I can not see how any minister could object to an honest man making an honest living. Please, officer, tell that minister I want to talk to him.
The prisoner was discharged.

Threatened Strike of Structural Iron Workers

A TELEGRAM from New York City speaks of a threatened strike, which, should it occur, will be the “greatest strike known in history.” The International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers is the organization by which the strike will be precipitated, unless the employers come to the terms demanded by the union. The president of this association, Mr. Frank Buchanan, says:—
There are five thousand of us now in a strike against the American Bridge Co., a part of the steel trust. Something must happen within a very few days, or there will be four hundred thousand of us on strike, and in a fight which will, without question, be the final test of labor organizations in the world; and we will win. We have sent a communication to President Roosevelt to exercise his power.
The last sentence of this statement shows how the extraordinary action taken by the president during the late coal strike, when he went outside the government for power to settle the difficulty, has become a precedent to be followed henceforth in the settling of labor troubles. At least this will be the method sought by the labor unions.

The Way, the Truth, and the Life

By F. R. Marvin

“I AM the Way, the Truth, the Life,” Thus spake the ancient Word; “From me alike on great and small Are peace and power conferred.”
Yea, Lord, thou art that living Way, By thee men come to God, The heavenly path where oft the feet Of thy dear saints have trod.
And thou, O Lord, art Truth itself, Not formal, cold, and dead, But living Truth, whereon our souls Forevermore are fed.
And more than all in earth or heaven, Thou art the Life divine; Dear Lord, thyself to us impart, And make our lives like thine.
— Rev. F. R. Marvin, D. D.
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