Color in Religion

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 3, 1867

Color in Religion.

THE Young Men's Christian Associations of Maryland and the District of Columbia met in Convention at Baltimore one day last week, and, like everything else that meets in Baltimore, was the occasion of a row. The trouble in this Christian organization originated in the presence of three colored men who represent the Colored Young Men's Christian Association of Washington; one of whom, a most worthy young man, was added to the list of Vice Presidents. To this outrage the Christian Young Men of Baltimore, and the country adjacent, could not and did not tamely submit.

It is our humble opinion that the Christian Young Men of Baltimore, who did this despicable act, will not reach Heaven in company with the young colored Christians they so contemptuously spurned. In fact, we do not believe they will get there in anybody's company, or even alone. They are not headed the right way; they have not learned the first lessons of Christianity. They forget that the Saviour went into the high-ways and by-ways and gathered together just such people as these, and that his Gospel was preached to them especially. He held out the option of immortal blessedness to ALL, and in his schemes the Young White Christians of Baltimore, do not rank a particle higher than the Young Black Christians. Should they repent of their senseless pride and finally reach Heaven, they will discover that neither color nor condition is taken into accounts there; if, on the other hand, they persist in spurning God's poor, and go down to the other place, (from which we affectionately warn them,) they will find that there, too, is perfect equality. The Bible, which they profess to take as their guide, they will find, if they examine it closely, does not give to the white race especial advantages, and that is probably why it is so little read in Maryland.—Toledo Blade.