p. 16 | This Is Not Christian Teaching

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 4, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 31.

This Is Not Christian Teaching.

A writer in an Eastern paper, who was present at a convention of one of the leading religious organizations of young people, reports that in almost every sermon the exhortation was given, “Christians must be more patriotic.” Whenever a reference to the present war was made, it was cheered to the echo. One speaker said that he would “like to give the sultan of Turkey a dose of Christianity with a hundred-ton Krupp gun, red hot;” and would like to do the same for every Spaniard on the American continent. We truly hope that these bright, active young people will not confound such teaching with Christianity.