"Troubled with Adventists."
By Epsilon
How is it that you are troubled with Adventists? There are a great many more Roman Catholics and Spiritualists. Do they trouble you? Do they bring no unwelcome truth to disturb your conscience? This world has long been troubled with unwelcome truth. Noah, a preacher of righteousness, was a pest, Lot was a pest to Sodom; Moses troubled the Egyptians, and the prophets troubled the Jews by warning them of approaching desolations. Said Ahab to Elijah: "Art thou he that troubleth Israel?" The Jews were much troubled by the advent of the Messiah. The Roman empire was greatly troubled by the unwelcome truth. The Romans, after trying in vain to drive the truth away by persecution, finally concluded to try the experiment of perverting it. The experiment did not work, for the unwelcome truth still troubled the people. Then followed a long and most horrid persecution. Thousands upon thousands were put to death by professed Christians. The heart grows sick while dwelling upon its torturous horrors. But after drenching the earth with the blood of truth-bearers, Rome failed to drive the unwelcome message out of the world. The world knowing that Rome has dyed its garments red with the blood of martyrs, is it not marvelous that others should attempt to trample down the truth and thus to some extent follow in the footsteps of the mother church? Such trouble certainly has one favorable feature, and may produce good results if properly treated. It shows an inward struggle between unwelcome truth and popular error. Obey the truth, reject the error, and the trouble will cease.