p. 420 | The Christian Spirit by Advance

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 17, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 27.

The Christian Spirit.

By Advance

LET no mistake be made concerning what is meant by a Christian spirit. Let us not, as is too often done, take one side of the character of Christ in forming an estimate of the whole. Men speak of the loving-kindness and gentleness in Christ, as though these virtues made up his whole life. This is a great mistake. The wrath of God against sin was incarnate in Christ. He denounced the hypocrisies of the Pharisees, laid bare the sin of society, stripped men of falsities, and pronounced woes on the heads of evil-doers. He overthrew the tables of the extortionate money-changers, and made a whip of small cords and drove them as thieves out of the temple.—Advance.