Chapter 33—“Search the Scriptures”
[
This article appeared in the
The Youth’s Instructor, October 13,
1898
.]
It is of the highest importance that every human being endowed
with reasoning powers should understand his relation to God. In our
schools the work of redemption is not carefully studied. Many of the
students have no real conception of what the plan of salvation means.
God’s word is pledged in our behalf. He who is touched with the
feeling of our infirmities invites us: “Come unto me, all ye that labour
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you,
and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find
rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light”
(
Matthew 11:28-30
).
Students, you are safe only as, in perfect submission and obedience,
you connect yourselves with Christ. The yoke is easy, for Christ carries
the weight. As you lift the burden of the cross, it will become light;
and that cross is to you a pledge of eternal life. It is the privilege
of each to follow gladly after Christ, exclaiming at every step, “Thy
gentleness hath made me great” (
2 Samuel 22:36
). But if we would
travel heavenward, we must take the Word of God as our lesson book.
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In the words of Inspiration we must read our lessons day by day.
The apostle Paul says: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to
be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon
him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and
being found in fashion as a man [as the representative of the human
race], he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and
given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of
Jesus every knee should bow” (
Philippians 2:5-10
).
The humiliation of the man Christ Jesus is incomprehensible to the
human mind; but His divinity and His existence before the world was
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