SAID the Saviour, "He that taketh not his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy of me." Mark x, 38.
He spoke these words in reference to the hatred and persecution which was to follow those who received Christ and the truths he taught. They had peculiar force to those whom he addressed, who had left their homes and followed Jesus from city to city, and through the wilderness, or sat by the sea-side, or on the dreary mountain listened to his discourses.71But the words of the Saviour are no less to us. As he bore the cross on Calvary's rugged brow for our sins, we have a cross to bear in following after him. His truth is no more popular now than when he addressed these words to the twelve apostles, and hatred and persecution is ever the portion of those who love him.
Unless we take the cross and follow after Christ, we are not worthy of him. How shall we bear the cross so as to be worthy of Christ? By becoming like him, by doing his will, as he did his Father's will. We are to purify ourselves by obeying the truth.
We bear the cross when we crucify the inclination of the carnal heart. This is our work under the third angel's message, to bring the feelings and propensities of the natural heart into obedience to the commandments of God and faith of Jesus, or teaching of the New Testament.
Let us take a retrospective view of Christian experience, and bearing the cross.
The carnal heart is selfish and self-willed. The Spirit of God softens the feelings, bends the will; and it yields to the mind and will of God. This change, by the Spirit of God, does not change the disposition, or make all alike of the same abilities, or of one gift. The apostle Paul says there are diversities of gifts, but of the same Spirit. The different gifts being set in their proper places in the church, by the one Spirit, a most perfect and beautiful harmony is disclosed. This change produced by the Spirit of God, bends the faculties of each mind to another object. As we loved and served self, we now love and serve God. As the Spirit makes a change in the feelings, propensities, and will, we are to continue in obedience, to keep the mind of Christ; for if we refuse or cease to obey, we fall from this change back to the carnal mind.
God does not act upon the mind as we act upon a machine. Our will must first consent. It is necessary that we willingly obey. The promise is to the willing and obedient.
As we follow on after the Saviour, we advance and progress as the light of truth shines. The light of to-morrow being greater than of to-day, duties and responsibilities increase; so on from day to day. To keep ourselves in the love of God, we keep bearing the cross, not as the door turns on its hinges, going and coming, bringing no good to itself, but we gain new light, increasing strength, and new victories.
By this experience we bring the lower and selfish feelings and propensities of the carnal mind into subjection to the higher, better, feelings and principles, which are begotten by the Spirit of God, as it affects the will.
This process of purifying ourselves commences in pain to us, but should end in pleasure and peace. It is at first painful to crucify the natural selfish feelings to benevolent feelings, but the more we practice and cultivate the right and crucify the wrong, the easier it becomes, until we prove it true that Christ's yoke is easy, and his burden is light.
But the progress of experience in purifying ourselves, takes our lifetime. We must ever bear the cross. We ever have some self to subdue or keep in subjection. The great apostle labored to keep his body under. It is a continual warfare with self and the world, and the enemy of all righteousness. We are not to lay down the cross until the victory is gained and the crown is won.
Said the Saviour, "Watch, that ye enter not into temptation." His words were full of instruction, lest in some unguarded moment we should depart from the true and right way, and thus be thrown back instead of progressing in our experience; and then our work must be done over. The apostle Paul says, if we sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. But he exhorts us not to sin because grace abounds. He also points out the way in which we can return to our advocate; and we have no promise that we can be accepted in any other way than that of the cross, confessing and forsaking our sins and errors, that we may be free from them; and then we can, again, go on unto perfection. The apostle James says, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed." The prodigal son, when he saw his sin, said, I will go to my
father, I will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. Make me as one of thy hired servants. David was a man after God's own heart, not in the sense that he had never sinned, but because he repented, and forsook his sins. Thus repentance makes us peculiarly favored of God. It never degrades, but ever elevates to the approbation of all heaven.
The father, when he saw his prodigal son returning, had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him, and said, Put the best robe on him, and put a ring on his finger, and shoes on his feet, and bring the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.
Although our heavenly Father is of great compassion, and of tender mercy to the erring, and the angels of God and the church rejoice over one that returns, yet few heartily confess and forsake their sins and errors. Many pass them by lightly, like a debtor who casts up the account without paying his debts. It ever stands against him.
The merits of Jesus pay the great debt for us, but we are sure of the merits of the Son of God only by way of the cross, heartily to confess our sins and errors to the heavenly sanctuary, and to one another. Thus they are laid on Jesus, and will be blotted out in the time of the refreshing. When we confess, it is our privilege to believe that we are healed. He that confesseth his sins shall find mercy; but he that covereth him shall not prosper.
The way of the cross is the way for all. We enter by the same way, are kept by the same power, and strengthened by grace. None are yet perfected; but as Paul says, we follow on that we may attain.
We should anxiously inquire whether we are striving for the mastery. If we strive lawfully, we shall obtain; and those who are thus striving are of one heart and of one mind in this great work. When some err from the truth, we do not rejoice over their downfall, but we entreat them to return to the right path again. We faithfully warn them of their danger, and urge the necessity of confessing and forsaking their sin. We try to enforce upon them the happiness of returning to the right path again. We cannot apologize for them or sympathize with them without partaking of their sin, and strengthening them in their wrong course.
Those who faithfully warn the erring, expose themselves to the censure of false sympathizers. Often do these sympathizers charge the faithful with being in the same wrong of those whom they are in love endeavoring to restore to the right path again. It is one of the enemy's great schemes to so blend the wrong with the right as to prevent distinguishing one from the other; but truth makes a great difference between them; and if we have, through obedience, the spirit of the present sanctifying message, we shall discern truth from error.
It is easy to imbibe wrong views; but it is not so easy for the natural heart to see, confess, and forsake wrong, for the right. Error brings wrong feelings, and a wrong spirit. Truth alone can sanctify. It is of the greatest importance to us to forsake every sin and error. We should ever be ready to bear the cross by confessing and forsaking them. We are to overcome by the blood of the Lamb and through the word of our testimony.
The blood of the Lamb is the means, but our testimony is the channel through which his blood flows to us. If the channel becomes impure, Christ's blood cannot avail for us. By word of mouth confession is made unto salvation.
The spirit of confession binds the hearts of God's people together. It restores more than former confidence. It shuts out the spirit of the enemy; jealousies and evil-surmisings cannot live where a true spirit of confession reigns. It keeps out all fanatical influences, and brings the sweet blessing of heaven upon us. Let us remember that the apostle teaches first, purity, and then peace.
Union has ever been sought in the churches, by covering sin and error. But error and sin work their own discord if left in the heart. Our only way to secure union and the peace of God, is by way of the cross. Beneath the cross the crown lies. Said the Saviour, "He that taketh not his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy of me." He came to do his Father's will, and he has left a perfect pattern for us to follow in his steps.
F. M. Bragg.
Cambridge, Wis.
The Power of Words
WORDS are nice things, but they strike hard. We wield them so easily that we are apt to forget their hidden power. Fitly spoken they fall like the sun, the dew, and the summer rain—but when unfitly, like the frost, the hail, and the desolating tempest.
Home.
By A. J. D. Griffith
Home, home, in the halls of heaven;
Calm, sweet beauty dwelleth there,
By no tumults ever riven,
Sounding through the summer air.
Home, home in those bowers of beauty;
There deep peace doth fill each breast.
Never there neglected duty
Causeth fear : 'tis perfect rest.
Home, home in that land of glory,
Who could ask for more than this?
List !—they tell the wondrous story,
In that world of perfect bliss.
Home, home in the Father's presence,
Where they dwell in perfect love.
There they joy to bring him rev'rence—
May we gain that home above.
A. J. D. GRIFFITH.
Amboy, Ohio.
LETTERS.
By I. D. Van Horn
"Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another."
From Bro. Van Horn.
Bro. White: I desire to express a few thoughts to the brethren and sisters through the Review.
I am prepared to say at the present time, that my desire for the future inheritance of the saints is increasing; and I am also prepared to testify that religion is a reality, just as real, for what I know, as any literal act in daily life.
Nearly four years ago the light of heavenly truth beamed into my mind, and opened a channel there that I hope may never be closed up. Out of chaos and confusion on Bible subjects, it has established reality and order. And may I ever remain in such a frame of mind as to give all praise and honor and glory unto God; for truly it is his work. Praise his name!
But I know by experience in the past that we cannot trust alone to a happy flight of feeling as an evidence of our acceptance with God. Here we are very apt to be deceived; for Satan, knowing our nature, will urge us to perform a good act, and at the same time influence us to think that we shall receive a great reward for it, when our feelings will rise into joyful expectation; and, resulting only from our own selfish motive, we become self-exalted, and finally fall from the favor of God. I do not mean by this that there is no feeling in religion. But as a contrast with the above, when we feel the influence of God's Spirit, we also feel our nothingness in his sight, our dependence upon him for the blessings we receive, and with humility and love we give him all the glory.
I believe there is also another way of knowing our acceptance with God. It is by carefully studying his holy word, and thereby gaining a knowledge of the plan of salvation, and carrying out in our lives what we learn.
Says God, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Hosea iv, 6. Again, Peter says, "Add to your faith virtue, and to virtue, knowledge," &c.; "for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall." Here we find an evidence of our acceptance by knowing and performing the will of God. Again, we may know God by keeping his commandments." 1 John ii, 3.
"And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he has given us." Chap. iii, 24.
Dear brethren, let us strive to gain a thorough knowledge of present truth, that we may always be ready to give a reason of our hope with meekness and fear. Then we shall enjoy the blessing of God, and have the influence of his Spirit to guide our steps as we pass down through the time of trouble. There is a dark and cloudy future before us; but let us remember that there is light and glory in heaven. May we all strive to gain the saints' inheritance by performing what the Lord has shown us to be necessary, in order to obtain an entrance there.
"If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land; but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." Isa. i, 19, 20.
I. D. VAN HORN.
Persevering in the Service of Christ
Bro. W. Caviness writes from Richmond, Iowa. : I am not yet tired of serving the Lord, nor am I growing weary in well-doing, but still feel determined to fight on in the glorious cause in which I am engaged until Jesus comes to take his remnant people to their eternal home. I still feel determined to spend the rest of my days in the service of my Master, that when he comes I may be enabled to hail him with joy and not with grief.
APPOINTMENTS.
By John Norton Loughborough
Providence permitting, I will hold meetings as follows:
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Green Bush, Sabbath and first-day, 21 and 22.
Owasso, the evening of the 24th, and day and evening of the 25th.
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Locke, March 7 and 8, and part of the week following.
Woodhull, the 14th and 15th.
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J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
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Note from Brn. Hoffer & Baker.
Bro. White: We are here in Mendon, Mercer Co., Ohio. We have given sixteen discourses, and have, so far, succeeded in awakening an interest that is lively and deep, people turning out in storm and mud very generally, filling the school-house where we meet to about its capacity. It took some time to break down prejudice, but it seems now to have given way in a good degree.
We are now in the midst of the merits of the law and Sabbath questions. The powers of darkness are pitted against us, but we feel mighty through God, to the pulling down of their strong holds.
The fruit of our labor is not yet manifest, neither can we now tell what will be the result; but indications are such as to greatly encourage us to believe that there are some honest souls here who will ultimately walk out in all the light of the most glorious present truth.
H. F. Baker,
Oliver Hoffer.
Mendon, O., Jan. 22, 1863.
To the Brethren in New Hampshire.
By D. T. Bourdeau, A. S. Hutchins, A. C. Bourdeau
HAVING received your repeated invitations to labor in New Hampshire, we would say that, the Lord willing, we shall hold a conference at Washington, N. H., Sabbath and first-day, February 7th and 8th, after which we intend to hold meetings in new fields, according to your request. If the roads permit, we shall endeavor to reach Washington one week before the conference, that we may have time to select a field of labor.
D. T. Bourdeau,
A. S. HUTCHINS,
A. C. BOURDEAU.
Notice.
By H. W. Lawrence
The next meeting of Seventh-day Adventists in Northern New York will be held in West Bangor, Franklin Co. It is hoped that those desiring baptism will come prepared. The above meeting is to commence the third Sabbath in February, and continue two days, or more if the cause demands it.
H. W. LAWRENCE.
TESTIMONY for the Church No. 9, is now ready. It will be sent by mail, post paid, for 12 cts. a copy, or nine for $1,00. Subjects—The war—Our duty in relation to it—Spirits lead our army, &c., &c.
Changes in Travel and Appointments
By Editor
Bro. Hull returns to Monterey, Brn. Loughborough and Byington go to Caledonia, Wright, &c., and we go to Burlington and Hillsdale.