The Country's Peril

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 6, 1866

The Country's Peril.

REPUBLICAN papers continue to utter the most unsparing denunciations of President Johnson's apostasy to the cause of treason and rebellion, and to indulge in fearful forebodings as to the continued peace of this country under the present policy. The only way in which the people of God can keep from being disturbed by the troubles before us, is to keep aloof from political matters. We can watch and note these commotions, as signs of the times, but we must not drink into their spirit; for we are pilgrims and strangers here, and our citizenship is in a better country over which the Prince of Peace shall reign. Earthly governments have about finished the allotted term of their existence. Soon the last revolution will be accomplished that is to take place before the coming of Him whose right it is to reign, and they will be dashed in pieces like a potter's vessel. Trouble, confusion, and perplexity, is henceforth their portion, and destruction is their end. Let us give our energies to the work of qualifying ourselves for an inheritance in the kingdom soon to be set up, and never to be destroyed.