The Real Conflict

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 25, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 33.

The Real Conflict

The Real Conflict.—The Congregationalist of October 26, 1893, said:—

The battle between Protestantism and Romanism is yet to be fought, and, if we do not wrongly read the signs of the times, it is to be fought on this continent sooner, perhaps, and with more terrible earnestness, than we have thought.

The sad thing about it is that many who call themselves Protestants have placed themselves, by the principles which they have deliberately adopted, on the side of Rome. The word of God, and that alone, as the rule of faith and practice, and the absolute non-interference of the civil magistrate in things religious, are primary Protestant principles. But many, aye, the majority, of Protestants have preferred tradition to the word of God, and are demanding civil law to enforce these traditions of an apostate church. The conflict does not lie between names, but between principles, between truth and error, between God’s word and tradition, between the Sabbath of Jehovah and the pago-papal Sunday, between Christ and antichrist, between the power of the gospel of Christ to win men and the power of the civil arm to coerce men. So-called Protestants will stand where their principles place them; Christians will stand with Christ and his word. Brother, where will you stand? Where do you stand? It is time now to cry, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”