An Ominous Alliance

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · May 27, 1886

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 20

An Ominous Alliance.

THE National Reform movement is to culminate in Satan’s grand masterpiece of deception. For a year or more it has been specially and assiduously courting the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and has now so far rhymed itself into the favor of the Union, that we very much fear it will never reason itself out again. Joint conventions are now being held by the two bodies, and we may expect to soon see their vital union consummated. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union has done noble work and we have rejoiced in it, and should ever rejoice while it kept in the line of its legitimate and chartered work. But just as soon as she proposes to sell herself to work the iniquity of lifting the National Reform party into power, in its union of Church and State, and the establishment of its hierarchy in this country, then we are prepared to write of her, “The glory is departed.” Is it possible that in his last grand effort to compass the misery of the human race Satan is to employ the woman as he did in his first?