Spiritual Pride | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 28, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 33.

Spiritual Pride.

Picking up an issue of a "holiness" paper a few days ago, attention was drawn to the caption of an article. It was the "experience" of one of the "saints," written by her own hand. The ego was so fearfully conspicuous that I was prompted to count, and found that the perpendicular personal pronoun occurred in the "experience" eighty-nine times, and "me," "my," and "myself," sixty-eight times, making a grand total of one hundred and fifty-seven times that ego was projected to the front!

Thus did not Jesus, nor Paul, nor John, nor Peter. Search all the Book, and no such "experiences" are given to either church or world to bring glory to the Redeemer's kingdom. Mental aberration justly calls forth sympathy, but method in madness usually arouses a modicum of suspicion. And yet, when such "saints" parade the streets to declaim on the corruption of ministers and churches, let no sinner presume to open his mouth.—"Quis?" in Cal. Chris. Advocate.