For the Truth by M. E. Cornell

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 20, 1866

For the Truth.

By M. E. Cornell

"For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth."—Paul.

"For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judged."—Moses.

"Admissions in favor of truth from the ranks of its enemies, constitute the highest kind of evidence."—Pres. Mahan.

We have a striking illustration of the above in the way that many act and speak with reference to the Ten Commandments. Infidels, Spiritualists, and some professed Christians, oppose the Law of God, and yet cannot help admitting its claims and its importance.

Perhaps the strongest opposition to the Ten Commandments, of late, has been by the World's Crisis. In that paper the law has been characterized as the "old dead schoolmaster," "yoke of bondage," "abolished," "done away," &c., &c.

This, and much more, we have seen in the Crisis "against the truth;" and now in contrast we have the following in the same paper "for the truth."

"It is a suggestive fact that, while infidels have presumed to mock the Lawgiver, and Him who has redeemed us from the curse of the law, they have never touched the Law itself. The perfection and glory of the Ten Commandments stand before the civilized world unimpeached as a perfect rule of right and wrong."—Crisis, Feb. 21, 1866.

"New England people seem to be losing their respect for the Sabbath at an astonishing rate, and will soon outdo the Germans in their desire to make it a day of recreation, instead of rest and devotion to religious duties. Too many of our young people regard the teachings of the Bible in regard to the observance of the Sabbath as 'too old fogyish,' and act accordingly; but there are well-settled principles of moral action that cannot be thrown aside without endangering the peace and good order of society, as well as resulting in injury to the individual.—Newburyport Herald"—Crisis, Feb. 14, 1866.

M. E. CORNELL.