A Keen Reply

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 10, 1862

John Wesley, in a considerable party, had been maintaining, with great earnestness, the doctrine of Vox populi Vox Dei against his sister, whose talents were not unworthy the family to which she belonged. At last the preacher, to put an end to the controversy, put his argument in the shape of a dictum, and said,

"I tell you, sister, the voice of the people is the voice of God."

"Yes," she replied, mildly, "it cried, 'Crucify him, crucify him!'"

A more admirable answer was perhaps never given.