Excitement | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 2, 1871

Excitement.

The Rev. Dr. Arnot having been charged with “excitement” when speaking on total abstinence, has replied:

“People need not tell me that I am excited on these questions. I know that I am. I should be ashamed before God and man if I were not. There is more in the public houses of Glasgow to stir the spirit of a minister than all that Paul saw at Athens. In my ministry I meet the horrid fruits of these whisky shops. I see men and women perishing in these pitfalls. The number of the victims is so great that it overwhelms me. My brain is burning, my heart is breaking. The church is asleep, and the world, too, and they are hugging each other. I am weary with holding in. I must cry. I would rather be counted singular in the judgment of men than be unfaithful in the judgment of God.”