No Compromise

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 12, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 11.

No Compromise.—The Christian can not compromise principle. If intemperance be an evil — and it is so admitted generally — the Christian can in no way foster it or temporize with it. He can not compromise with it by licensing evil. If six saloons are a curse to a town, one is. It does not mitigate the curse to the worse than widowed mother to know that drink was sold to husband or son under a thousand dollar license. From a purely economic standpoint it would be a blessing to a community and to the world to abolish the drink traffic forever. But the Christian as an individual must look upon it from an even higher motive, and he must not compromise with the evil.