Republican State Convention

S. D. A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 7, 1882

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 34; Special Edition, No. 1

Republican State Convention.

It was our privilege to attend the first two days of this Convention at Sacramento City. Next week we shall give our impressions of some of the proceedings.

Our readers must not think we have turned politician because we attended a political convention. They must bear in mind that the line between politics and popular religion has become very faint and dim in California. If one wishes to know all about politics now he must go to church, where he will be instructed about “police regulations,” and learn the true nature of “sanitary measures.” And if he would learn the extreme depth of the religious sentiment of the day, he must go to a political meeting. No “shouting Methodists” ever showed so much enthusiasm as political conventions now show over “our holy religion.” But we will never have a union of “church and State” in this country! Oh, no. “We are the people.”

What will happen when the blind lead the blind?