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We Are to Glory Only in the Cross, August 12
God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the
world.
Galatians 6:14
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The cross of Christ,—how many believe it to be what it is? How many
bring it into their studies, and know its true significance? There could
not be a Christian in our world without the cross of Christ.... Turn from
the examples of the world, cease to extol the professedly great men; turn
the mind from the glory of everything save the cross of Christ. Said Paul,
“God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Let all, from the highest to the lowest, understand what it means to glory
in the cross of Christ. That cross is to be bravely and manfully borne.
Christ declares, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow me.” And to all who will lift it, and bear it
after Christ, the cross is a pledge of the crown of glory that can never fade
away....
This is the highest science that we can learn,—the science of salva-
tion. The cross of Calvary, rightly regarded, is true philosophy, pure and
undefiled religion. It is eternal life to all who believe. By painstaking
effort, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little,
it should be impressed upon the minds ... that the cross of Christ is just as
efficacious now as in Paul’s day, and should be as perfectly understood by
them as it was by the great apostle....
Know that the only thing in which you can safely glory is that which
will open to you the gates of the city of God. Learn from the Word of God
how to form characters fitted for the country you are seeking. Know that
Christ is to be set forth among you, and that all that was lost in Adam the
cross of Christ fully restores to every believing soul
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The Youth’s Instructor, July 7, 1898
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