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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 22, 1875

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 37.

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Christian Union.

By James White

No ONE who has any just idea of the importance of the great Scriptural doctrine of the second advent can fail to be interested in the article in this number of the SIGNS on "Christian Union." Appearing, as it does, in the Crisis, it may well be regarded as "a home thrust." We have often known individuals, when under conviction of some duty which contained a cross, to evade the cross and quiet their consciences under a show of extreme piety, and make the abundance of their profession atone for their lack of obedience. This trait is now manifested among all the churches who cover up their worldliness and destitution of the power of godliness with a cloak of sanctification or sentimental holiness. And those Adventists who have shut their eyes from, and their hearts against, present truth which calls for obedience to the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, are now making a great merit of "union," even with those who despise the "blessed hope" of the appearing of "this same Jesus." The under editor of the Crisis leads off in this fanaticism, and it is refreshing to find such a rebuke to that spirit in that paper. We recommend the article of Eld. Lombard to the careful consideration of every reader.
J. H. W.