p. 165 | World-Worship

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 24, 1877

World-Worship.

The object to which a man bows down and worships, leaves its own impress stamped upon his soul; and as the years roll on, he must inevitably, by the very law of his being, become more and more like the god he adores. If a man gives himself up entirely to the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or any one of the fashions of this world they each in turn become his god, and at the shrine of each he bows down and pays his homage. Day by day he finds some one or all of these objects becoming increasingly necessary to his happiness—and even to his existence; and spurred on, as by an unseen power, he plunges forward in hot pursuit of his object, until death, that solemn sentry, bids him stand!

They who saw him in life knew that “God was not in all his thoughts.” He was not to be found among those who “went about doing good.” The noble and godlike enterprises of the day—though they loudly demanded—did not obtain his aid and co-operation. He was of the world, and to it he gave all he had and all he was. Thus do all those who love not our Lord Jesus Christ.—Christian Banner.