State Religion

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 4, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 30.

The Independent reports a writer in the Japanese Mail as saying that among the twelve hundred foreign missionaries in China, "those sent from America are true propagandists of the gospel; but of those belonging to the Russian and French nationalities, some are really of the military profession. They take no interest in the propagation of their religion, but are busily engaged in geographical studies with special reference to military operations."

The above is the politics of State religion. If the church had kept the place which God gave her, the ministers of earthly governments could never have crept in in the guise of ambassadors of the King of kings.