Striking for an Enemy's Heart by Christian Neighbor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 13, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 40.

Striking for an Enemy's Heart

By Christian Neighbor

How we are, after almost nineteen centuries of experience, working on in the old barbarous ways of killing enemies with shot and murderous shell! Warships cover the ocean, and standing armies darken the land. Yet

there is not a wrong that justice cannot arbitrate, there is not an enemy that love cannot conquer, if you give her a fair chance. There are some of us who may be stigmatized as "cranks," who yet believe Christ's way to strike at an enemy is to strike for his heart, and that you have never succeeded in killing an enemy until you have made him a friend.