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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 24, 1877

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 21.

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Speak Boldly.

By D. M. Cartwright

SPURGEON says that the great goddess Diana, now-a-days, is “unsectarianism,” and that the advice given to ministers is, “try and be unsectarian, and all that is sweet and soothing, and velvety and treacly, and you will succeed.” Spurgeon’s trumpet gives no uncertain sound. He says: “I wish to bear this witness, not about myself, mark, but about the truth which I have preached. Nothing has succeeded better than preaching out boldly what I have believed, and standing to it in defiance of all opposition, and never caring whether it offended or whether it pleased.”
Spurgeon is right. God is not in partnership with the devil. Truth never becomes more powerless than when she seeks to gain over her enemies by compromise. “Charity, concession, compromise,” is what error and Satan are always crying. The most successful reformers have always been the most radical, out-spoken, fearless men. This soft, cringing, policy work is all of the devil. It is his only chance for life. Let us be tender and loving but bold and outspoken. — D. M. CARTWRIGHT.