Neither Sin nor Saviour

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 1, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 47.

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Neither Sin nor Saviour.

— The Homiletic Review says regarding Dr. Eliot's new religion that if it is to be received as indicative of the future religion of men, then “the consciousness of sin is to disappear utterly. The prayer of the publican will be noted as a strained accent of a morbid imagination that has afflicted all mankind.” But it also truly remarks that all that can be gotten out of such a theory is “a comfortable philosophy.” “The religion of the common man has always been a religion of salvation from sin, because the common man is himself a sinner. And the only worth of any religion, we may remark, is that which will save man from his sins. The divine estimate of man does not classify; it does not place the moral professor on the one side, and the immoral saloon-keeper on the other. It declares that “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” Jew and Gentile are both under sin, and the only Saviour is Jesus Christ. Dr. Eliot's religion recognizes neither sin nor Saviour.