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Why Don't you Submit?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 9, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 40, No. 4.

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Why Don't you Submit?

By A. P. Lawton

WHY are we so long in learning that rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and that exalted angels forfeit Heaven by an unyielding spirit? Many, with this warning before them, will run the fatal risk, rather than yield their own will, or concede a point.
It is a mark of a noble, generous, and cultivated mind, to investigate, and cheerfully yield, when in error. Large fortunes have been sunk and many valuable lives sacrificed, when a little yielding would pacify great offenses. Jealousy, envy, and self-dignity cause impatience under needed reproof. There is a cause, and our work is not to add to our sin by insubordination. We should not be offended, but deeply humbled.
God knows when there is entire submission and no mental reservation. Many who will have an exalted place will be excused from having any part in the matter. I must have a place, though ever so humble, with the people of God in the closing work.
A. P. LAWTON.
West Winfield, N. Y.