Holding the Flood-Gates

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 20, 1911

Holding the Flood-Gates

IN these days of great moral declension, affecting in so large a degree the political, social, and even family life of the nation, it is gratifying to see here and there men in responsible positions who are seeking to hold the flood-gates of evil, and dam back the rising tide which threatens to inundate the world. God still has his agencies at work. There are still men and women occupying high positions in the world who recognize the claims of God and the demands of an enlightened conscience, paramount to personal convenience or selfish, sordid ends.

The apostle Paul exhorted the believers to pray for kings and those in authority. Similarly, we are to remember those who occupy important positions of trust in the state, asking God to give them wisdom to discern between right and wrong, and strength to follow the convictions of honest judgment.

Many occupying positions of worldly responsibility to-day will sometime see and recognize the truth of God for this time. God in his providence sees that just now they can better serve his purpose where they are. But in his own time he will speak to their hearts. They will recognize in some of the issues brought before them the path of truth, and with the same decision of character with which they have stood against evil in the past, they will espouse the principles of right. It is for us engaged in this last great movement to labor alike for men of high and low degree, patiently sowing the gospel seed, and trusting God in his own time to bring the harvest.