IS THIS CHRISTIANITY?

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 5, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 52.

IS THIS CHRISTIANITY?

THE following is quoted from the Christian Witness by the Christian Cynosure of September 27: "Not long ago a member of our church (the Methodist Episcopal) died. His funeral, held in the church on the sabbath, was attended by over a hundred members of the lodge to which he had belonged. They were decked out with regalia, and carried spears and poles and banners and battle-axes—all emblems of carnal warfare. He was buried from the church where he and his wife were converted. The members of the church who prayed with him around the altar had to stand back and give place to the lodge members, most of whom were members of the church; some never enter a church on any other occasion, and some were infidels, and the 'chaplain' for the occasion was a reputed Spiritualist. At the grave two rituals were read over the remains, that of the church being sandwiched in between that of the lodge. The man was thus twice buried."