p. 139 | The Esthetic in Christian Churches

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 23, 1882

The Esthetic in Christian Churches

"The Portland (Or.) Christian Advocate regards with great apprehension the drift toward the esthetic which is displayed in many Christian churches and pulpits at the present day, where the minister 'competes with the actor' and 'the choir with the opera,' and 'where the 'people of taste' in the church affect the silliness of the 'esthetic,' and publicly prate of the 'too utterly nice' music of the theater. * We hasten to say—for fear we may not long have the privilege of saying it—that no minister has yet appeared in the pulpit with a big sunflower in his hand nor a lily in his buttonhole."