“Joshua had received the promise that God would surely overthrow these enemies of Israel, yet he put forth as earnest effort as though success depended upon the armies of Israel alone. He did all that human energy could do, and then he cried in faith for divine aid. The secret of success is the union of divine power with human effort.”

Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 509.

Whether we like it or not, we are at war. That war is the great controversy between Christ and Satan. And in war, weapons are needed. But the only weapons available to the true Christian are those authorized by God in His Word (Eph. 6:17; Heb. 4:12).

The U.S. Supreme Court term just past has gone far in establishing the principle predicted long ago by Ellen White as the ultimate portent of papal triumph in America: “that the church may employ or control the power of the state” (The Great Controversy, p. 581).