Editorial Notes by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 27, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 35.

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Editorial Notes.

By Editor

There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn to praise the Lord.

If you will justify the Lord till the end of time, He will justify you till the end of eternity.

If you are on the lookout for good people in this world, you will find good people on the lookout for you.

The opening providences of God are discerned by those who are at the front, not at the rear, in His work.

You will never have any burden in the service of Christ that is half as heavy to carry as the burden of sin.

Only that which is spiritual is truly real. Only that which the natural eye cannot see is to endure throughout eternity.

It is not the great abundance beyond your reach that you need, so much as the blessing of God upon the little that you have.

Don’t become too anxious to preserve the gold that you have here, lest some other should take from you the crown of gold that is waiting above.

We are all of us licensed to preach, by the Lord, and we are all of us preaching, too. But some of those who have a license from God are preaching for the devil.

The true optimist is not he who believes the world is growing better, but he who believes that a better world is soon to take the place of this one that is so filled with sin and misery.

There is but one genuine “sure cure” in the earth to-day, and that is the grace of God. The richest man has not money enough to buy it, and the poorest man has not poverty enough to shut it out.

Do not complain because it is necessary that you should develop the “patience of the saints.” You must have great patience in order to be like God, and God must have great patience in order to get along with you.

The sheep of the Good Shepherd will not follow a stranger, but “will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.” It is not necessary to know evil and error in order to avoid them; the Christian’s safety is in not knowing them; he only needs to know that they speak with an unfamiliar voice.

The Democratic party in Ohio has openly renounced “Bryanism,” and Democrats of Wisconsin and Georgia have followed suit. The Democratic party, if we may judge from indications, will have no more use for Mr. Bryan and his principles. As a means for getting the party into power, Mr. Bryan has proved a failure. During the campaign the Democratic orators and papers said much about their love for the principle of government by consent of the governed, and all those American principles which the other party were repudiating, but on this issue they failed at the polls. So the issue of the last campaign is to be dropped, and some other one found which will take them to victory. For victory at the polls is the chief thing in politics. If the Democratic party had won at the last election, then their love for the principles of the Declaration of Independence would have been unbounded; but as it is, these principles, so far as they constituted the issue in their last disastrous campaign, must be set aside. For whatever they do, they must, if possible, get back into power. A political party’s love of principle may be accurately

measured by the usefulness of that principle to the party’s interests. For the great thing in politics, always, is not adherence to principle, but success. The love of success is greater than any other love in politics.