p. 9 | OUR ADAPTABLE ENEMY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 20, 1907

OUR ADAPTABLE ENEMY.

SATAN is never fastidious. Any way of gaining his end is good enough for him. He is not particular how he enters your life, so long as he gets in. And he never lets his feelings stand in the way of his success. You may knock him down nine times, but he does not bear that up against you if you will let him score on the tenth. Indeed, one half suspects that the devil lets himself get beaten sometimes for the express purpose of throwing his man off his guard.

We are always in danger from him, and most of all after a victory. The gain of a whole series of victories may be wiped out for us by a single disastrous and unexpected defeat. The outlook would be a discouraging one, but for the fact that One is fighting on our side, with us and for us, who has never yet been defeated or even tricked by the devil, and who never will be. Only when we desert that Ally do we fall.—Selected.