THE GLORY OF BEING IN THE MINORITY.
HE who stands with the minority for any question of right or truth, stands with the heroes of earth. Every great good, social, political, or religious, has been secured through the influence and labors of the minority. Much of their work is unappreciated, and when they have gained best results, they are not always recognized by those who enjoy them. Usually, however, long after the heroes who make up the minority at first, have gone to their graves, men honor their ashes. A great truth of history is embodied in the saying that in the earlier centuries of Christianity "the ashes of the martyrs were the seed of the church." From the Highlands near Stirling, Scotland, the writer once looked upon the distant shore where heroic martyrs, tied to the stake at low tide, were strangled by the rising tide rather than renounce Christ. That one feature of the picture remains more prominent in the memory of that morning than everything else connected with Stirling Tower and its history. The minority of to-day, standing with God, will change to the majority sometime. When that time may be, matters little. The majority of to-day, which is not in accord with God and righteousness, will not exist to-morrow even as a minority. It will finally be ground to powder by the millstone of divine justice, which works for the minority at first, and destroys the disobedient majority at last. One with God is a majority. God's arithmetic is not like the arithmetic of man. His definitions of majority and minority are not the definitions found in human lexicons. The Christian should seek his definitions from God's lexicon.—Sabbath Recorder.