The Christian and Worldly Tendencies by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 31, 1883

The Christian and Worldly Tendencies

By Editor

A RELIGIOUS journal published in New York speaks thus of a man who was formerly an inhabitant of that city: "He was an able man, but not entirely in sympathy with the prevailing temper and tendency of New York life." Truly that is not a severe indictment. No better thing can be said of any man than that he is entirely at variance with the prevailing temper and tendency, not of New York merely, but of the whole world. What this temper and tendency is, we learn from 2 Tim 3:1-5 and Gal. 5:19-21. To the extent that a man is opposed to the prevailing tendencies of the age, does he approach the true standard. The Christian must be in the world, but not of it.