Counterfeit Truths

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 16, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 49.

Counterfeit Truths

Counterfeit Truths.—Men counterfeit that which is valuable. Satan and his minions have counterfeited truth. But he never introduced them as counterfeits, but as "harmless innovations," "politic expedients," which after lapse of time crowded out the true. So the Sunday as a holy day crept into the Christian church. But a counterfeit does not become genuine by lapse of years. Tho a counterfeit twenty-dollar note pass through the hands of a dozen expert bankers and be approved by every one of them, it is counterfeit still. An error may have been held by the theologians and the good of the church for centuries, but it is not less an error. He who knows a bill to be counterfeit and passes it for genuine, is a criminal, disloyal to the government. He who knows a theological dogma or an institution to be error, and still holds or teaches it, is disloyal to God. The white light of God's judgment throne will test all men and things. Let us bear in our hearts and lives such coin as will stand the test.