INDIFFERENCE TO TRUTH

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 6, 1898

INDIFFERENCE TO TRUTH.

The Christian Advocate, of New York, referring to a recent diocesan address of Bishop Ryle, of England, thus speaks:—

“The most painful symptom that marks the present age Bishop Ryle takes to be the increasing indifference to all distinctive doctrines and opinions in every part of the land. The growth of the school of indifference, in his opinion, is one of the most dangerous signs of the times, and he avers that the land contains myriads, to be found in all the churches, who are not communicants and never exhibit any interest in vital religion.

“This condition is not confined to England nor to the Church of England, though there are not a few flatterers of the age, descendants of Eli, who are constantly declaring that the religion taught in the New Testament never was making such progress as it is now. There never were so many branches, nor so many twigs, nor so many leaves on the various ecclesiastical trees known as Christian; but it is not counted a good sign anywhere else when a tree planted for fruit runs to leaves, or when most of the fruit falls off before it is ripe.”

The Christian can never afford to be indifferent to the teachings of God’s Word, least of all in these solemn days of our Lord’s coming.