p. 16 | Christ Is Not in It by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 16, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 36.

Christ Is Not in It

By Editor

Christ Is Not in It.—Dr. R. Coyle, in a sermon in this city last Sunday morning, in referring to these labor troubles, said that, view it as we will, dread it as we may, it is in the line of progress. It is God's way to bring good to humanity. Jesus Christ is in it. Jesus Christ is coming in these clouds with power and great glory. To us it is sad that so learned and eloquent a man as Dr. Coyle should use his talents in so perverting the Scripture. Christ suffers all these things, but he does it that men may see the result of sin and so learn its evil nature; but Christ is not in that which has not the blessed healing of the gospel of peace. Christ is not in the tyranny of the poor any more than he is in the oppression of the rich. Christ is not in any movement that disregards the personal rights of any man, whether rich or poor. Christ is not in any movement, however pitiable may be the condition of the men engaged therein, which wholly ignores him and his gospel, and the moulding principles of which are those springing from the unregenerate heart. He will get glory from all of man's unwisdom. He will yearn over and pity those who are deceived. He will punish, or suffer the fruit of their own doings to fall upon, those nations, organizations, corporations, or societies which do thus wickedly. He will restrain wrath, and do all in his power, in harmony with his infinitely wise plan, to bring good out of the evil which man is continually bringing on himself and others. If labor or capital is blessed of God in these struggles, it will be in spite of the principles which seem to actuate both sides, and not because of them. Christ does not come in such clouds. These things are signs of his coming, when he shall truly come in clouds of glory, and "every eye shall see him." See Luke 21: 25-27; 1 Thess. 4: 16; Rev. 1: 7; Acts 1: 9-11.