THE RELIGION NEEDED by F. D. Huntington, D. D.

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 7, 1880

THE RELIGION NEEDED.

By F. D. Huntington, D. D.

We want a Christianity that is Christian across counters, over dinner tables, behind your neighbor's back as in his face. We want a Christianity that we can find in the temperance of the meal, in moderation of the dress, in respect for authority, in amiability at home, in veracity and simplicity in mixed society. Rowland Hill used to say he would give little for the religion of the man whose very dog and cat were not the better for it.

To make them effectual, all our public religious measures, institutions, benevolent agencies, and missions, need to be conducted on a high scrupulous and unquestionable scale of honor; without evasion or partisanship, or overmuch of the serpent's cunning. The hand that gives away the Bible must be unspotted from the world. The money which sends the missionary to the heathen, must be honestly earned. In short, both arms of the church—justice and mercy—must be stretched out, working for men, strengthening the brethren, or else your faith is vain and ye are yet in your sins.—F. D. Huntington, D. D.