p. 471 | Moral Independence

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 26, 1882

Moral Independence

THE moment a man parts with moral independence; the moment he judges of a duty, not from the inward voice, but from the interest and will of a party; the moment he commits himself to a leader or party, and winks at evil because divisions would hurt the cause; the moment he shakes off his particular responsibility because he is but one of the thousand or million by whom the evil is done, that moment he parts with his moral power. He is shorn of the energy of a single-hearted faith in the right and true.