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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 13, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 7.

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The Cure for Anarchy

By C. M. S.

THERE is a cure for anarchy. It is not a human cure; it is not brought about by legislation. It comes through the Great Physician, and through him alone. It will not only cure anarchy, but it will save the anarchist. It will do this in the individual, but only in the individual who willingly allows it to be done for him. There will be no compulsion about it; there will be no salvation of anarchy en masse, or as a society. That work of cure must go on in the heart until every root of bitterness is eradicated, until every selfish impulse is banished, and submission to the will of God is complete.
Satan was the first anarchist; he revolted against the law of God. He sought the overthrow of government; he sought the exaltation of self. Now the cure for anarchy must be the very opposite of that, and we find it in Christ Jesus. This is the all-important admonition: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” That mind which was in Christ Jesus led him to lay down his life for those who had merited death through the breaking of God’s law. Thus was the majesty of the law upheld, and at the same time a way opened that men might be saved from the results of their own anarchistic course.
The heart of the carnal man is the heart of anarchy; for we read, “The carnal mind . . . is not subject to the law of God.” Then, in the regeneration of the heart of man is the cure for anarchy; that is, letting the mind of Christ displace the carnal mind. That takes anarchy out of the individual, that saves the individual; and it is the only thing that can. That is anarchy’s only cure. And in the application of that cure, submission to the will of God, is the only true and perfect liberty.
C. M. S.