What They Expect by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 19, 1876

What They Expect.

By Uriah Smith

THE editor of the Christian Statesman, in his issue of Sept. 14, 1876, speaking of the relation of the “National Reform” movement to the political parties of the land, says:—

“We shall force on politicians the consideration and discussion of questions which they would fain ignore. We shall point them to the higher ground on which a large and steadily increasing body of American Christians stand, and we shall one day see political parties vieing with each other in their not insincere professions of devotion to the principles which they now so studiously ignore.”

We have italicized a portion of this extract, because it expresses just what we also are looking for. This national reform movement is to be more political than religious, more earthly than divine. And we look for this, because the voice of One more far-seeing and authoritative than the writer of the foregoing has declared substantially the same thing. U. S.