[Songs in the Night - June 11]
Ye are witnesses of these things. Luke 24:48
THE apostles as witnesses were not merely to tell
about the Redeemer's virgin birth, nor merely about
his holy, devoted life, nor merely of our Lord's resurrection,
nor merely of his ascension, but in addition to
all these facts they were to tell that he was a properly
qualified Redeemer, that he met all the conditions of
the Law, and that now he ever liveth to succor those
who come unto the Father through him.
How faithfully
the apostles performed their mission!
How truly,
as the Apostle Paul declared, they shunned not to
declare the whole counsel!
Worldly wisdom might
intimate that to own a Master and Teacher who had
been executed as a felon would be to their discredit,
and thoroughly hinder them from progress in gathering
followers to their Leader.
But these faithful witnesses
consulted not with flesh and blood as to what they
should preach—they told the story simply in all of
its details, not neglecting even those of Peter and
Judas, and the disputing as to which should be greatest,
etc.
The truth in the simplicity in which God
intended it to be delivered has evidently come down
to us in the Bible account. Z'06-396 R3911:3 (Hymn 23)