1646.—Petitioning Congress.
By Editor
Believing that the prophecy of Rev. 13:11, 18 means the setting up an image to the beast, by the passing of Sunday laws, and that this will be fulfilled, why send to our Congress petitions against such enactment? It seems to me that such work would be in vain. Even tho we know evil is coming upon a land, it is the duty of God’s watchman to warn the people. See Ezekiel 33. Jeremiah knew that Jerusalem would be destroyed by Babylon, yet he ceased not to warn the king and the nation. The union of church and state, which forms an image to the beast in the light of the prophecy, is an evil thing; yet many esteem it good, and therefore will do all in their power to accomplish such union. Knowing this evil, is it not our duty to save such from it? Of course, such a union would in all probability result in the persecution of those who worshiped God instead of bowing to apostasy, but it is not to save men, or ourselves, from this persecution that we warn; for God will care for His own. Our protest is that we may save the men who would make such laws and who would thereby become persecutors, from allying themselves with the powers of evil. Therefore we petition, protest, remonstrate, plead, that souls may be saved and evil averted, or else the blood of souls will be found on our garments.