POLITICS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 6, 1876

It is reported of Dr. Byles, of Boston, that he was once asked why he did not preach politics. He replied: “I have thrown up four breastworks, behind which I have entrenched myself, neither of which can be forced. In the first place, I do not understand politics; in the second place, you all do, every man and mother’s son of you; in the third place, you have politics all the week; and in the fourth place, I am engaged in a work of infinitely greater importance. Give me any subject to preach on of more consequence than the truths I bring to you, and I will preach on it the next Sabbath.” If some of those who are so deeply immersed in the political measures of this present evil world would concern themselves a little less with such things, they would have much more time and energy to inquire and search the news of the coming kingdom.