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Does the World Hate Piety?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 12, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 13.

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Does the World Hate Piety?

In answer to this question, the celebrated Sydney Smith says:—“It is not true that the world hates piety. That modest and unobtrusive piety which fills the heart with humane charities, and makes a man gentle to others and severe to himself, is an object of universal love and veneration. But mankind hate the lust of power when it is vailed under the garb of piety; they