p. 227 | Religion Works From Within by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 12, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 15.

Religion Works From Within

By Editor

IN an article in the California Christian Advocate of January 31, 1894, the Rev. Dr. Dille, in writing against certain rules in the church concerning forbidden pleasures, says:—

True religion works from within outward; a thief is not reformed by tying his hands behind him, nor a dancer by manacling his feet. "The malady lies deep within," and defies the superficial quackery of man-made rules.

And all this is true. But would it not be well for our Methodist friends who so believe to apply some of these same principles to the Sunday and national reform questions? A nation is not made Christian by law; the church has no business to discipline the world.