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In cases where we are brought before the courts, we are to give
up our rights, unless it brings us in collision with God. It is not our
rights we are pleading for, but God’s right to our service.—
Manuscript
Releases 5:69
(1895).
Adventists Will Be Treated With Contempt
The same masterful mind that plotted against the faithful in ages
past is still seeking to rid the earth of those who fear God and obey
His law....
Wealth, genius, education, will combine to cover them with con-
tempt. Persecuting rulers, ministers, and church members will conspire
against them. With voice and pen, by boasts, threats, and ridicule,
they will seek to overthrow their faith.—
Testimonies for the Church
5:450
(1885).
There will come a time when, because of our advocacy of Bible
truth, we shall be treated as traitors.—
Testimonies for the Church
6:394
(1900).
Those who honor the Bible Sabbath will be denounced as enemies
of law and order, as breaking down the moral restraints of society,
causing anarchy and corruption, and calling down the judgments of
God upon the earth. Their conscientious scruples will be pronounced
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obstinacy, stubbornness, and contempt of authority. They will be ac-
cused of disaffection toward the government.—
The Great Controversy,
592
(1911).
All who in that evil day would fearlessly serve God according to
the dictates of conscience, will need courage, firmness, and a knowl-
edge of God and His Word, for those who are true to God will be
persecuted, their motives will be impugned, their best efforts misinter-
preted, and their names cast out as evil.—
The Acts of the Apostles,
431, 432
(1911).
All Kinds of Persecution
The persecutions of Protestants by Romanism, by which the reli-
gion of Jesus Christ was almost annihilated, will be more than rivaled
when Protestantism and popery are combined.—
Selected Messages
3:387
(1889).