p. 6 | Modern Christianity Versus First-Century Christianity

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 15, 1906

Modern Christianity Versus First-Century Christianity

THAT the Christianity of to-day is not the Christianity of the first century is plain to every candid observer. As a representative expression of this conviction we quote the following statement from a letter to a leading New York paper:—

As a careful student of the development of all religions I am amazed at the departure of modern Christianity from those simple standards formulated by its divine Founder.

A new system has appropriated the names and forms of Christianity. It is the form of godliness without the power, the body without the spirit. There is the same demand for a reformation now as in the sixteenth century.