We Can Not Come Down by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 5, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 23.

“We Can Not Come Down.”

By Editor

—A person sends to this office a circular-letter setting forth a series of “Our Propositions,” a mixture of truth and error, and challenges discussion of them with “all preachers, both in and out of sects, in good standing among their people, who take issue against us,” and he thus characterizes all beforehand who do not accept: “Surely all are cowards, and on the weak side, or side of error, who shun the light of fair, open, honest investigation; or draw back from honest test of their church, doctrine, or practise.” We should think that it might suggest itself to this seeker after notoriety that there might be many who have greater faith in the light of God’s Word than in his interpretation of it, and who consider the work of preaching the Gospel and saving souls so transcendently great that, like Nehemiah, they can not come down to debate with one who declares in his published sheet that he hopes to make it “offensive truth.” Our mission is not to give men notoriety, but to publish the blessed healing truth of God.