Chapter 56—Religion and Scientific Education
Dear Brother and Sister B,
You have both been presented before me as in danger spiritually.
You were leaving the right path and were placing your feet in a broader
road. Sister B was saying many things, in jots and tittles, here a little
and there a little, which were as seed sown, and the harvest will surely
come. She was encouraging unbelief and telling her husband that the
road they had been traveling was altogether too narrow and lowly.
She thought that her husband’s qualifications were of a high order and
should be exercised in a broader and more influential manner. Brother
B was of the very same mind; in fact, he had led her into this train of
thought. You both held the banner upon which was inscribed, “The
commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus;” but as you met in
your way with people whom you thought were popular, down came
the banner, and you put it behind your backs, saying: “If we let it be
known that we are Seventh-day Adventists, then our influence will be
at an end, and we shall lose many advantages.” I saw the banner of
truth trailing behind you. Then the question arose: “Why carry it at
all? We can believe that which we see to be truth, but we need not let
the educators and students know that we bear this unpopular banner.”
There were those in your company who were not pleased or satisfied
with these suggestions, but they weakly followed your influence in
place of letting their light shine by holding aloft their standard. They
hid their banners and marched on, fearing to let the light which was
given them of heaven shine before all.
I saw one approaching you with firm tread and grieved counte-
nance. He said: “Let no man take your crown.” Have you forgotten the
humiliation endured by the Son of God in coming to our world, how
He suffered abuse, reproach, insult, hatred, mockery, and betrayal,
how He endured the shameful trial in the judgment hall after having
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suffered the superhuman assaults of Satan in the Garden of Gethse-
mane? Have you forgotten the wild cry from the mob, “Crucify Him,
crucify Him,” and how He died as a malefactor? Is the servant greater
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