p. 187 | Right Is Might by Archdeacon Hare

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1872

Right Is Might.

By Archdeacon Hare

As sure as God liveth, as sure as the Holy One of Israel is the Lord of Hosts, the Almighty, right is might, and ever was, and ever shall be.

Holiness is might; meekness is might; patience is might; humility is might; self-denial and self-sacrifice are might; faith is might; love is might; every gift of the Spirit is might. The cross was two pieces of dead wood, and a helpless, unresisting man was nailed to it; yet, it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but no pure, holy deed, or word, or thought. On the other hand, might, that which the children of earth call so, the strong wind, the earthquake, the fire, perishes through its own violence, self-exhausted and self-consumed, as our age of the world has been allowed to witness in the most signal examples.

For many of us remember, and those who do not have heard from their fathers, how the mightiest man on earth, he who had girt himself with all might except that of the right, burst like a tempest cloud, burnt himself out like a conflagration, and only left the scars of his ravages to mark where he had been.

Who of you can look into an infant’s face and not see a power mightier than all the armies of Napoleon?—Archdeacon Hare.