Vice’s Enmity Testifies to Virtue

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 17, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 36.

Vice’s Enmity Testifies to Virtue

Vice hates virtue not because it is virtue, but because it exposes the hideousness of vice. The criminal at the court would, if he could, take vengeance upon the witness who testifies against him, not because the witness is innocent of the crime in question, but because the testimony given exposes his own sinful deformity. The enmity of vice towards virtue is, therefore, its own testimony against itself, and indirectly a tribute to virtue. "Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and shall say all manner of evil against you, falsely, for my sake." "Woe unto you when all men speak well of you."—Sabbath Recorder.