p. 16 | Good Counsel

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 22, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 28.

Good Counsel.

In a recent general council in New York of the Reformed Episcopal Church, the matter of clerical dress, or “church millinery,” as denominated by one of the delegates, seemed to consume more time and attention than its importance demanded. The contention, the Catholic Mirror informs us, was “great,” and that “things looked ominous, indeed—the whole church threatened to go to pieces.” But this good advice was given by Rev. P. H. Martin, colored delegate from Pineville, N. C., as reported in the New York Evening Sun. He said, and we commend his words to those needing such counsel:—

“‘Are we dealin’ in dry goods?’ Bishop Fallows said yesterday dat we needn’t cross de bridge till we come to it. We has come to it and some of us is trying to cross in a boat. If dis question had a come up in Charleston we’d settled it in twenty minutes. We preaches de Gospel of Jesus Christ down in South Ca’lina, and we don’t let no dry goods, black or white, stop us. If you’ll just turn de question over to us we’ll kill de whole dispute in no time, and have mo’ time fur savin’ souls.”

Give us more time for soul-saving, and less for non-scriptural non-essentials.