Condoning Heathenism by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 5, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 18.

Condoning Heathenism

By Editor

IN our Mission Fields department is an article which merits special attention. The writer of “Condoning Heathenism” well asks, “Whither are we drifting?” It contains valuable testimony right in line with the greater part of this paper. When Protestants adopt an institution heathen in its origin, and, in the face of God’s word to the contrary, persist in forcing it upon others by methods equally unprotestant and unchristian, we see no reason why they may not adopt other heathen customs and heathen practices. Is not ancestral worship—invocation of saints—as respectable as “the venerable day of the sun”—the papal Sunday? If not, why not?