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An Honest God

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 40.

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An Honest God

By Editor

REV. MR. HARCOURT, a Methodist minister of San Francisco, is credited with the following utterance in a recent sermon:—
"Alexander Pope was scoffed at by the self-righteous bigots of his time because he said, 'An honest man is the noblest work of God.' In the light of a new civilization, even churchmen are coming to see and believe this. But a still deeper and broader thinker than the poet has said, 'An honest God is the noblest work of man.'"
The words so heartily approved by Mr. Harcourt, and which we have italicized, are a blasphemous travesty uttered some years since by Robert G. Ingersoll, and only 2 Tim. 4:3,4 can adequately explain their approval by a professedly Christian minister.