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The Heathen at Home

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · May 14, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 20.

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The Heathen at Home

A STRIKING view of the present religious and social situation is given by one writer in these words:—
We are harboring a heathen population in our cities that are as absolutely foreign to Christianity as were the South Sea cannibals. Their language, habits, notions, all tend to isolate and segregate them. When they do come into contact with us, it is into collision; it is when a strike or some other crisis arises; and then, for want of other means of making themselves understood, and for lack of any ties of sympathy, antagonism grows bitter and deadly. Bombs take the place of bonds.
The professed church, with its “New Theology” and its human philosophy, seems powerless to convert this heathen population, and these disturbing elements are a growing menace to the welfare of society. The genuine gospel message is needed in America as well as in the islands of the sea.