3511 — The Picture of the Cross
By Editor
I see in your paper pictures of the cross. Is there anything in this cross that the enemy can make use of? The Catholic Church uses this as their badge. There is nothing in the Bible prohibiting the use of any figure, any cross, or square, or circle, or rectangle, or triangle, or any other geometrical figure. The mark of apostasy does not lie in any figure of that kind. It lies in that which pertains to conduct. The cross is not used in the "Signs of the Times," nor pictured there, as a badge. It is simply shown in the way in which the Bible has given it, as an emblem of crucifixion to the world, and of the sufferings of our Lord. The Bible uses it frequently in that way. Christ died upon the cross. Paul says, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Gal. 6:14. Now the apostle did not mean by this the cross as a mere sign was of value, but he meant the death of the Lord Jesus Christ upon that cross; and the "Signs of the Times," in the pictures which it uses, means the same thing, pointing to the death of Jesus upon the cross, and the fact that we should be crucified with Him.