He Will Do It Anyway by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 8, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 44.

He Will Do It Anyway.

By Editor

A bright, breezy exchange puts it in this colloquial way: “Don’t waste time trying to punish sinners. The Lord will do that in time if you don’t butt in.” That is splendid advice. Sin is of the heart and motive, and no man can accurately weigh and measure the motives of the human. It is doubtful if the sinner himself can. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jer. 17:9. The next verse declares that God knows it. He alone knows it. He will not have to try to punish sin; in His own good time He will visit punishment, and it will be supremely just. When that event occurs it may fall out that the worst sinners are those who have attempted to punish others. Whether man interferes or not, God will do His work.

“Not Military”

It is a strange thing to hear one remark that the boy scout movement is “not military.” Its very inception is military. Its aim is to train men for expected or possible war. A great many other things are brought in, but the movement is military; the very name is suggestive of war.