p. 16 | A Christian Nation

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 7, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 14.

A Christian Nation

A Christian Nation.—The general character of a “Christian” nation is well set forth in the following words from a speech by Senator Thurston on the condition of things in Cuba:—

“I shall refer to these horrible things no further. They are there. God pity me, I have seen them. They will remain in my mind forever, and this is almost the twentieth century. Christ died 1,900 years ago, and Spain is a Christian nation. She has set up more crosses in more lands, beneath more skies, and under them has butchered more people, than all the other nations of the earth combined.”

The moral is that Christian nations are not made by constitutions, legislation, or human decree of any kind. Every attempt so to do has always the opposite effect. The history and work of Spain emphasizes this fact.