It Ought Not So to Be

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 16, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 23.

It Ought Not So to Be.

A noted political reformer truly remarked a few years ago that the world expects of the church more than she demands of herself. But it ought not so to be. God would have His church doing what would astonish the world and all the hosts of evil if she would but trust Him, live His life, and receive her orders from Heaven. The trouble is that the church professes to be of heavenly origin, and yet is using worldly means and methods to accomplish a work for which she ought to have the power of God. Of course, she makes a failure. Her power is in the Spirit and word of God, not in the civil power.