Times Ominous | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 20, 1909

Times Ominous.

Dr. Washington Gladden, in a recent debate in Boston with Professor Rauschenbusch, declares that the times are ominous. He says: “I can not contemplate the possibilities of this impending struggle, with any feeling but that of dread.” He thinks that the only hope lies in the Christian church, and that if the Christian churches would “drop their controversies about creed and ceremony and criticism, and would concentrate their thought upon getting the Golden Rule established, as the law of neighbor life, and business life, and political life—of all life—an influence would go forth from their assemblies which would speedily fill the world with life and health and peace;” all of which sounds good, but which is Socialism pure and simple, endeavoring to build a religion of life out of humanity, instead of humanity’s receiving it from the Lord Jesus Christ. The Golden Rule is spiritual; the moral law of God is spiritual, and the only way it can be made effective in social and every-day life is by spiritual men who are divinely regenerated.