Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 24, 1908

Following Ingersoll

THE extent to which some professed ministers of the gospel of Christ have drifted away from the teachings of Jesus, may be inferred from the following statement by a Presbyterian clergyman:—

The day will soon come when the world will prove that, sacred as is the place that Jesus holds in the world's esteem, they are no more bound by what he taught, did, and thought, than they were by the precepts of Robert Ingersoll, and the modern church more nearly follows this exemplary and kindly and honest American than it does the Oriental.

This is a serious indictment to make against the modern church, but no more serious than that which is found in the prophecy applying to this time.