Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 31, 1906

COMMENTING on the collapse of Dowieism, the Missionary Review of the World says:—

One lesson is very especially to be learned, namely, that any work or scheme, however laudable in itself, that crystallizes about one man or woman, is always fraught with peril. There are at least three other enterprises, that are nominally Christian and missionary, that to-day run a similar risk. They are unduly dependent for direction and control upon a single individual, and already we have sad proofs of maladministration and hints of possible corruption in their management. We feel with increasing depth of conviction that mankind is not yet sufficiently infallible to put any man into a position of absolute power, either in church or in state. Only the Perfect Man can be trusted with such a scepter, and for his coming the world unconsciously waits.

The application of this lesson in our own experience is so clear that it does not need to be pointed out.