There is no greater evidence that Satan is working than that men who profess to be sanctified to God's service, persecute their fellow beings because they do not believe the same doctrines that they themselves believe. These will rush with fury against God's people, falsifying [and] stating things they know are untrue, thus showing that they are inspired by him who is an accuser of the brethren and a murderer of the saints of God. But if God permits tyrants to do with us as the priests and rulers did to His Son, shall we give up our faith, and go back to perdition? It is not because God does not care for us that He permits these things to be; for He declares, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." "He shall deliver the needy when he crieth, and poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence, and precious shall their blood be in his sight."
The time is soon to come when the Lord will say, "Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain." Let the many who claim to be Christians be full of satanic hatred because they cannot force the consciences of God's people. Not long hence they will stand <not before earthly judges, but> before the Judge of all the earth, to render an account for the pain they have caused the bodies and souls of God's heritage.