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Spencer and the Teaching of Jesus

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 29, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 22.

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Spencer and the Teaching of Jesus

A “Christian” journal calls Mr. Herbert Spencer “the great philosopher;” but if he is this, what shall we say of Jesus of Nazareth, between whom and Mr. Spencer there is but one great common truth—individualism? But this leads on Mr. Spencer’s part to make man his own Saviour if he has any; it leads in the teaching of Jesus to simple, childlike faith in God.