The Danger of False Peace

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 13, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 11.

The Danger of False Peace

There is a “peace” that is born of delusion; it means compromise, yielding, to the enemy. There is no temptation from Satan when our soul is fast in his toils. When we first turn from Christ and duty, conscience warns, and the Spirit pleads, and Satan tempts; but when we are yielded to the devil’s delusions, conscience becomes seared and hardened, the Spirit sadly leaves us, and Satan soothes to a deadly rest the erstwhile conscience-troubled heart. No condition is more dangerous than a peace purchased at the expense of truth, light, and duty. Such “peace” is a matter of feeling, not condition. When the harvest comes and the last great day arrives, the feeling will depart, and the actual condition will be seen in all its barren nakedness.