Politics vs. Religion

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 14, 1882

Politics vs. Religion.

REV. A. S. FISKE, pastor of the Howard-street (S. F.) Presbyterian Church, in a recent sermon, made a comparison between the conduct of delegates to a political convention and church members. He spoke of the ease with which financial difficulties are overcome in a political campaign, and the promptness and enthusiasm shown by delegates. Speaking of the enthusiasm shown at Sacramento on the reading of the Sunday-law plank in the Republican platform, he said that if such excessive feeling were shown on a purely religious question, the enthusiast would be deemed insane. But when church and State are united, of which the Sacramento Convention is only a forerunner, the politician will impart enthusiasm to the church. It is, doubtless, in this way that the church is to be revived, and the millennium brought in. As for insanity, we are not sure that there was none of it manifested in the Convention.