Keep to the Middle of the Road

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 23, 1916

Keep to the Middle of the Road

If ever there was a time in the experience of this movement when we needed to exercise good judgment and common sense in our activities, we need to do so now. Satan will seek to make us cold and indifferent to the times in which we are living. Failing in this, he will seek to switch us off on some extreme position. He will magnify some little detail so that in our estimation it will appear the main issue of the movement. He will lead us into idle speculation over the future, and we shall be caused to make startling statements with reference to the particular outcome of this and that question. Let us keep within the limits of the plain, straight testimony of the Word of God. That Word deals with great principles. Let us be content to deal with the same. Let us keep in the middle of the road, realizing that we are the bearers of a sacred, dignified, and important message, and that carefulness of statement and dignity of method should characterize all that we say and do.