Very Consistent by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 30, 1872

Very Consistent.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

TRUTH is always consistent, always harmonious, with itself. No amount of cross-questioning will make truth contradict itself. All its parts agree. Not so of error, however. It is always contradicting itself. It can not run long without crossing its own track and revealing its crooked ways. The opposers of the present truth often furnish good illustrations of this fact. Thus, only last Sunday I heard the Presbyterian minister at Albert Lea, in his prayer, tell the Lord how fast the light and truth were spreading, and what a good prospect there was that ere long the glorious time would come when the nations would learn war no more, and the kingdoms of the world would become the kingdoms of the Lord, and then the millennial reign would set in.

This was very well; but in the sermon the minister admonished us that ere another harvest comes, the archangel's trumpet might sound and all earthly scenes would end. Now both could not be true. If the world is to be converted and then enjoy a thousand years of peace and glory, certainly the end of all things could not occur before that. We could not have a thousand years of peace and prosperity on the earth and still have the end come this year.

Yet how often we hear men say that the Lord may come to-night, or to-morrow, or at any time so far as we know. Then they will go right on with an argument to prove that the world must all be converted and enjoy the millennium before the Lord can come! There could scarcely be a more glaring contradiction.

D. M. CANRIGHT.