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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 25, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 33.

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Which Is It?

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We were astounded to see in a London religious journal the editorial utterance, “Might is not only right, but legal, according to the divine Book, and is taught by all the prophets of Israel.” It is not so. The axiom is Satan’s, opposed to God’s, Right is might. Right is eternal; wrong is temporal. The former is of God, and has the seeds of eternal existence within itself. The latter is of Satan, and bears in itself the seeds of eternal destruction. To say that might is right is to proclaim the gospel of force—Satan’s gospel. To declare and live that right is might is to proclaim the Gospel of the Lord our Righteousness. It is Satan’s gospel to force men’s wills. It is the Gospel of Christ to win them to undying loyalty to right, whatever may be present consequences or seeming appearances.