Covering Up Iniquity

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 3, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 17.

Covering Up Iniquity

An Eastern paper declares that the machine men in the Senate at Albany, New York, have served notice that there is to be no house cleaning there. Some of the investigations have stirred up scandals that are notorious; but it is said that there will be no thorogoing inquiry, and these scandals will not be sifted to the bottom. That is about the way that most of the investigations turn out. When they are followed to their source, they are generally found to involve so many friends or acquaintances of the investigators or prominent men, that the investigation is stopped. Things are quieted, iniquity is covered up, and conscience is more and more benumbed.

Truly the ancient prophet characterized this time in the following words: "Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently: the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together. [The Common Version reads, "So they wrap it up."] The best of them is as a brier; and the most upright is as a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity."

Sometime God will reckon; and when that time comes, there will be no appeal from the decision. Sometime God will reveal the iniquity; and at that time, unless that iniquity is covered by the blood of Jesus Christ, it will be made visible to all the world.