The best way to show that we have no sympathy with any evil course is to do differently.
It is not necessary for a man of strict integrity to be continually or periodically declaiming against dishonesty, in order to convince people that he has no sympathy with fraud. His life shows that, though he say not a single word.
The man who has no other way of showing his antipathy to sin than by talking against it, is in a sad condition. The church or religious society that is obliged to pass resolutions against gambling, drunkenness, impurity, etc., in order that the world may know where it stands, thereby confesses that it is not really separate from sin.
Being and doing is the most efficient preaching. "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 5:16)--Present Truth, April 18, 1901--Original title: Back Page--Timeline: IV-15 (Sermon on the Mount)--Matthew 5:16.