David Justified | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 12, 1877

David Justified.

The editor of the Christian Intelligencer publishes an extract from a letter written to him by a missionary who has been forty years in the Levant, in which this passage occurs: “In regard to the imprecatory psalms I have not the slightest difficulty—never had since I came to the East. Any one who has, would be cured by a six weeks’ residence in Hasbeijah or Mey Ayun, or any other interior part of the country to-day. Here on the coast where things are a little better, we exclaim, O Lord, how long shall the wicked triumph? But let any man who objects to the imprecatory psalms be made to live here without protection from his own government for six weeks, and he will find the language of the most violent psalm quite too weak for him. He will want to put in a double portion of fire and brimstone, and conclude if there is not a hell there ought to be one, and a deep one too. On this point we are in danger of quarrelling with the providence of God, which permits such things. . . . Political matters here are very dark. We hope the Mohammedan power may get a pull-down in the present war, and we daily pray, Destroy thou them that destroy the earth. If that is wicked, we are doing wickedly, and we shall continue to do so until the Turk is blotted out, and Mohammedanism and the Papacy have no more power.”