Social Clubs and True Christianity

International Tract and Missionary Society · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jul 15, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 27.

Social Clubs and True Christianity

REV. EDWARD JUDSON, son of Adoniram Judson, says:—

“When a few congenial people come together, drawn by the laws of social affinity, organizing a social club which they call a church, it may be all very beautiful, but is not Christianity; it is merely beautiful, gilded paganism. If Christ were to appear in the flesh, he might marvel that such an institution should be called after his name, and might perhaps say that that was just what he came into the world to upset. The spirit that either freezes the poor out, or else pets and patronizes them, is fundamentally opposed to the ideas of Jesus.”