Wisdom of the Ages: Note from the Editor

From The Pentecostal Herald:

January 12, 1898;

an editorial by Rev. H.B. Cockrill

If you come to Christ, He will in no ways cast you out. But so many fail to come. They soon get to where they either won’t come or can’t come. Christ never fails to take the one who comes to him no matter what his sin may have been. But many a man fails to take advantage of Christ’s goodness and is lost forever.

We compare lost souls to diamonds in the rough and say that the power of God polishes them up for usefulness and heaven. A pretty illustration, but something more than polish is needed to prepare a soul for right living and for God. It must be transformed, regenerated, and sanctified. Education and refinement polishes, but it takes the gospel to fit for heaven.

We have heard sinners say, by way of excusing themselves, that they feared they would not hold out if they became Christians. This is one of the most subtle excuses which he devil offers the sinner and one which, alas, he too often accepts. It flatters the sinner that he is honest and that his delay is justifiable and he takes no little comfort to himself. But there is “danger and death” here. The truth is that if Jesus can save at all in the first place, He can keep us saved, after we once become His followers.