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Pettiness in Modern Religion

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 19, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 31.

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Pettiness in Modern Religion

The Hartford Religious Herald observes that "pettiness is coming to characterize the religion of our times quite too much to leave in it the power of conviction and the energy of a diffusive force. Little matters of taste and etiquette; new methods of pleasing and attracting the thoughtless and gay; style and manner and attitude; a thousand and one petty incidents are made so much of . . . piety is so smothered by the ornaments of religion, that it is difficult to hold even Christians by the force of conscience. Indeed, many are claiming that there is no such thing as conscience, and too often verify their claim by their life if not by their logic."