Not of Us by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 20, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 29.

“Not of Us.”

By Editor

A correspondent sends us a clipping from the Cleveland (Ohio) Press concerning a president of a free-love society, who states that he once belonged to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, was a preacher in fact among them; and we are asked, “What about it?”—Not much of anything. We do not recall the name of such a man as preacher, yet he may have been. We do think, however, that any religious denomination is to be congratulated who has no place for those who hold to such things, and who must go outside in order to practise them. It is a credit to the people that such ones should leave them. As the apostle wrote; it has ever been true: “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.” The commandments of God and the faith of Jesus furnishes poor pasture-land for free love.