A GOOD FIGHT | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 28, 1889

A GOOD FIGHT.

THE man who stands up for the truth of God in opposition to the atheism, agnosticism, infidelity, and anarchy of the present day, who stands up for an open Bible for all the people, in opposition to the priestcraft and superstition which prevails; who stands for a vital and personal regeneration, religion, and righteousness, instead of the dead formality and worldliness which wraps the pall of death over so many who have named the name of Christ, and who have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof, will need to strengthen his heart in God, and put on the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left.

His enemies will be many, and his friends will be few; and while his enemies will be subtle and fierce, his friends are liable to be lukewarm and indifferent. His enemies know what he is doing; his friends will perhaps find it out in season to erect a monument to him when he has been dead half a century. Of old, God's professing people stoned the live prophets and honored the dead ones, and history often repeats itself.

It is no light thing for a man to set the battle in array against such a host of foes, but the battle is the Lord's, and those that fight for him are on the winning side. Many a man has suffered fines, imprisonment, and death itself, for the truth of Christ. Many a man has entered the conflict well aware that there were men who thought it no sin to shed his blood. Men ready to make such sacrifices are needed now.—Selected.