Suppose it Was So?

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 16, 1872

Suppose it Was So?

If stolen money, like laying hens, could cackle, what a racket there would be in some men's pockets and premises. If stolen goods, like Chanticleer, could only crow, how many would be broken of their rest, and kept awake by night. If the hire of laborers—kept back by fraud—could talk like Balaam's beast, what braying would din some employers' ears. If the orphan and the widow could only speak, how many unjust ones would be troubled continually by the ringing of voices in their ears, saying: “Give us our rights.” If all things unfairly gotten and wrongly detained could be set free and sent back to their rightful owners—what a wonderful exodus would there be from house to house—from person to person—from purse to purse—from capital to labor—from labor to capital! If some “spiritual medium,” going from house to house, could enter all the parlors and chambers—plain and princely—whose furniture was bought with other men's money, and could set the several articles in motion—each in the direction of its rightful owner—what a movement there would be among the mirrors; what a rattling of silver plates, knives, forks, and spoons; what a hustling of chairs and tipping of tables; and would not many a bed take up itself and walk? It is a great thing to have conscience void of offense toward God and man. A great thing to be able to say: “I have wronged no one—corrupted no one—defrauded no one.”—Examiner and Chron.