p. 16 | Despite the Boasted Civilization

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

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

Despite the Boasted Civilization

Despite the boasted civilization of these closing years of the nineteenth century, there are still many localities in so-called Christian lands where if a man is unfortunate enough to have been born of some particular parentage or race, he is shunned and often persecuted. Can a man change his parentage?—Certainly not. Then if his ancestry unfortunately is bad or uncongenial to us, don’t kick the poor fellow down for that in which he bears no responsibility, and which it is impossible for him to change. There is one thing that men can not choose, and that is their race or parentage. And Christianity always says to us, Love, and never hate, mankind.