Keep From Every Wicked Thing
A stirring missionary discourse was given in the Tabernacle, Sabbath, September 28, by W. A. Spicer, on Deut. 23:9: “When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.” The admonition applies to us to-day; for we are engaged in a conflict with the powers of darkness; and it shows the degree of consecration which is made the condition of success in this warfare. “Then keep thee from every wicked thing.” One Achan in the camp brought discomfiture to Israel. What wonder, then, that in the more important conflict now being waged, it should be made incumbent upon the people to keep themselves from every wicked thing? The Moravians were held up as a people whose example should be emulated and followed. If people with the ordinary views of the gospel can maintain the enthusiasm and persistence which they and some others have manifested, how ought it to be with us, who have a work on our hands the keynote of which is to flash the truth around the world till all have heard it, and to bring the triumphant conclusion of the gospel in this very generation?