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The Only Standard

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 11, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 15.

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The Only Standard

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The Only Standard.—The following is printed in defense of straight prohibition voting. The principle is just as applicable in all the concerns of life. How refreshing it would be if every Christian would abide by the principle: (1) A Christian voter ought to do RIGHT. (2) Educate everybody to do RIGHT. (3) Support the Prohibition party so long
as there is no other, RIGHT. I must do right. That is the beginning of Christian citizenship. The ego is the temple of the Logos—the secret place of the Most High.’ I can not teach until I have been taught. I can not know in advance the far resultants of interacting social forces. I can only listen to the voice of the Eternal, and He deigns or dares to tell me but one thing, ‘This is RIGHT,’ and for myself, by faith, I add the postulate, ‘This will win,’ but ‘the times and the seasons are in His hands.’ So, then, the longer and complexer is the purpose, the closer I must stick to this first course of my building.’” And we add, Amen.