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Wealth Subordinate to Character: A Church Reflection

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 23, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 43.

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Wealth Subordinate to Character: A Church Reflection

The Watchman said that “the attainment of wealth should be strictly subordinate to the attainment of character.” To this the Christian Advocate responds: “But what a change would take place if the Christian church were to act upon that principle! Yet it is the principle taught by the Master.” That is only to say, What a change would take place if the Christian church were to act upon the principle taught by the Master! And that is to say, What a change would take place if the Christian church were Christian! And when that is so, then what indeed is that “Christian church”? Does not 2 Tim. 3:5 truly describe it?