Idol-Makers and Idol-Worshipers

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 1, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 13.

Idol-Makers and Idol-Worshipers

Idol-makers and Idol-worshipers.—The so-called Christian nations are supplying, not only opium and rum to the idolators of the Orient, but images and idols, and America is the last in the race. But the opium and the rum are worse than the images. The strife for commercial supremacy in this respect ought to open the eyes of the thinking pagan. Would that with each idol, rendered into the language or dialect of the purchaser, there could go a copy of the following from Psalm 115:—

“Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, But unto Thy name give glory, For Thy mercy, and for Thy truth’s sake. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens; He hath done whatsoever He hath pleased. Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not; They have ears, but they hear not: Noses have they, but they smell not; They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; So is every one that trusteth in them.”