Nothing Hid by James White

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 15, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 24.

Nothing Hid

By James White

THE disclosure of transgression is sooner or later inevitable. There can be no burial of it so deep that in due time it will not have a resurrection. The voice that tells is somewhere. The stain is somewhere. The sore and shame are somewhere. The avenger is somewhere. The eternal right is over all.

Out of the darkness and silence, out of the misguided zeal of friends, out of the eagerness of the guilty to seem indifferent and unconscious, out of the patience and sufferings of the wronged, out of the very emphasis of denial fortified by favorable public opinion, out of all concealments and subterfuges, will come eventually the revelation, the confession.

There is no special miracle in all this, however singular seems the disclosure, but an eternal miracle through the righteous and perfect methods of God. It is one of the insanities of the sinner to think that for him, at least, there may be an immunity; that in his case the infinitely wise and gracious constitution of things may be modified. But there is no allowance made for him, be he prince or peasant. Just as certainly as sufficient arsenic kills, so does guilt finally appear.—James White.