As a “Fetish or Formula”

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 21, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 37.

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As a “Fetish or Formula”

DR. FRANK CRANE, in the Christian Herald, most truthfully says: “Millions follow Christ as a sort of fetish, or formula of salvation, or rigmarole of superstition, who have not the slightest conception of His program of life.”
“Jesus had the kind of courage that can wait, suffer, bear insult, and be crucified.”
And the reason why so many people believe that the world is getting better all the time, and that we have whole “Christian nations,” is because they have not risen above the “fetish” and “formula” and “superstition” plane, to learn from practical experience the life of the blessed Christ, who is the Prince of peace. The Master has uttered the warning: “Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? and in Thy name have cast out devils? and in Thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.” Matt. 7:22, 23.