THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN by James White

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 11, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 11

THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN.

By James White

The political campaign for 1880 will probably absorb the public mind to a greater degree than any preceding presidential election. We do not call the attention of our people to this subject in order to enlist their special interest in it; for however great may be the influence of the coming campaign upon the destiny of the nation, we as a people, as Adventists, have before us an all-absorbing subject, and a work of the greatest importance, from which our minds should not be diverted.

As a people, we should waive all feelings of prejudice in favor of or against the North or the South. It should be our study to adapt ourselves, as far as possible without compromising truth, to all who come within the reach of our influence, and at the same time stand free from the strife and corruptions of the parties that are striving for the mastery.

The revelations of the changing administrations of our day have been fully sufficient to shake confidence in political partisans. Let us keep about our work, trusting in that overruling Hand that has hitherto guided the affairs of nations. J. W.