p. 167 | An Antidote for Error

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Nov 29, 1853

An Antidote for Error.

How shall Christians be prepared to meet the errors that abound? No given rules can define every position which the enemy takes. As the road is very broad, and the enemy is called a crooked serpent, his course is devious, and his forms changing. Formalism and rationalism, hypocrisy and infidelity, and all the various forms of iniquity, combine to destroy the saints of God and blind the minds of the children of men. Still, there is a remedy. The Holy Scriptures are inspired of God. They are mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds. Divine truth can fill the soul, and then the chaff can find no room. Heavenly love casts out fear. The sword of the Spirit is the word of God, and the "Jerusalem blade," as Bunyan calls it, will cut its way through.

Let the Holy Scriptures be read; let the gospel be preached in simplicity and power, and it will destroy error just as certainly as the fire consumes the canebrake with its insects and reptiles. How cheerfully should every Christian take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, and put on the whole armor of God, and so be strong in the Lord and the power of his might! How cheerfully and zealously should every minister of the gospel declare the counsel of God in thunder tones, and tell in promises kind and sweet that Jesus lives to save! Then will error die, false teachers fail, and love and truth survive and triumph in immortal day.—Selected.