Multiplying Ceremonies

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 12, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 28.

Multiplying Ceremonies

Multiplying Ceremonies.—It has ever been true that the farther away from God a people drifted, the more they multiplied religious ceremonies, the more ostentatious and ornate their forms of worship. This is especially marked in Catholic countries. The April Wide World magazine, of London, publishes a series of photographic views of a procession on Good Friday, in Seville, Spain. In this procession is depicted the last days of Christ upon earth, from the driving out of the money-changers, to the judgment hall, the crucifixion, and resurrection. It is a blasphemous prostitution of Christianity. Those who have Christ enshrined in the heart, would never consent to personate Him in this fashion.