A Queer Confession by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 22, 1885

A Queer Confession.

By Editor

REV. J. M. ARMOUR, of Sterling, Kansas, one of the spokes in the National Reform wheel, reports to the Christian Statesman of Jan. 8, on the Sunday-railroad and postal service in Kansas. After telling how a certain man had expressed to him the hope that the National Reform movement would succeed, he utters the following sentence, which we quote verbatim et literatim, italics and all:—

"As I left him I felt deeply that our movement was literally following in the footsteps of that monarch of old, of whom it is so often said that he 'sinned and made Israel to sin.'"

That is certainly a queer confession to come from one who is so wedded to that movement as is Mr. Armour. We rather incline to the opinion that he intended to pay a compliment to National Reform. And he has done it; we should say, however, that we think it a kind of "back-handed" one. But be that as it may, this is exactly what we have thought of the National Reform movement from its very inception, and it is what we are sure it will prove to be. Mr. Armour has stated the truth.