ENTHUSIASM | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 6, 1860

ENTHUSIASM.

To promote the success of their favorite candidates, secular editors engage in the most exhausting labors, and by denying themselves ordinary rest and repose, endanger their physical health, while their zealous coadjutors among the people sacrifice time, business, comfort, money and health to insure the success of their canvass. The various clubs at great personal sacrifices, travel from place to place to attend meetings and excite interest.

Now suppose the ministers and members of churches should thus pour forth their money, travel in bands over the country, gather meetings at unseasonable hours, indulge in long and inflamed speeches, deny their nature a necessary repose, under the plea that they were anxious to awaken their careless fellow men to a concern for their endangered souls, the whole would be branded as enthusiasm and fanaticism. The world would pronounce them insane. How is this? May men lawfully work themselves into enthusiasm to secure the election of a governor or president, while required to repress all earnest feeling in the infinitely more momentous matters of eternity? Should we hereafter hear our secular papers denounce revival movements we shall be disposed to remind them of the elections of 1860.—Presb.