THE FOUNDATION OF THE LORD STANDETH SURE.
By S. B. Whitney
“For their rock is not as our rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.” Deut. 32:31. The cause of truth, which is the cause of God, is sure to prosper at last. No matter how adverse the winds that blow against it, no matter how dark the clouds that hang over it, no matter how gloomy the prospect before it, it will finally succeed and triumph over all. Not so with error. Though puffed by the breath of popular favor and borne along on the tide of public opinion for a time, yet it is destined to meet with defeat, and the disastrous effects will recoil on the heads of its unworthy advocates; and often the very thing they proposed and predicted respecting others falls upon themselves. And sometimes these results follow very soon, and do not always wait for the final adjudication of the claims of truth and error. The history of the past, both of church and state, furnish abundant proof of the correctness of this principle; but we have not time to notice this point, and will simply refer to an incident in our own experience by way of illustration. Some time since, while laboring in the immediate vicinity of a first-day Adventist church, one of their leading ministers came to oppose; and in his zeal he made the remark that he would make “hard sledding” for the seventh day in the bounds of his Conference during a certain space of time. The next fall I visited the same place, and unexpectedly to myself, the annual session of that Conference occurred there at the same time. When this minister made his report, instead of boasting of success over the seventh day, he had rather a doleful story to tell of himself, and among other things stated that during the past summer he had had “hard sledding.” He seemed considerably softened in his feelings, and treated me with much more respect than he did six months before.