In Love with Themselves
By Editor
In Love with Themselves.—A writer in the New York Voice reports a leader of a love feast among the colored people in the South as saying, "All in love with God, their fellow-men, and themselves, will come forward and partake." As being expressive of the colored man's religion, we have nothing to say, for he may not have meant what he said; but the expression "in love with . . . themselves" aptly expresses much of present-day religion. But Christ was not in love with himself, for he "pleased not himself," and commanded every disciple to "deny himself." It is only by being emptied of self that we may become like Christ; but he who is in love with himself will have no room for Christ. Every false religion in the world is based upon a love of self. Though men have called it love of God, it is but the worship of the god self.