If True, ’Tis a Pity by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Apr 25, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 17.

If True, ’Tis a Pity.

By Editor

The Christian Statesman, the organ of the National Reform Association, declares that the World’s Christian Citizenship Conference “greatly increased” the association’s “responsibilities.” The National Reform Association is working for national and State religion, “the authority of Jesus Christ over national life,” a doctrine which in practise has cursed Church and State through all the centuries; yet the Christian Statesman avers that it finds “the great body of Christian missionaries” with them in this, and now the association “must carry this message to all nations.” It is not less than a calamity indeed if the missionaries look upon it in this way. It is not the Gospel of Protestantism or primitive Christianity. It is what the Roman Catholic Church has been preaching since the days of Constantine. Jesus Christ declares, “My kingdom is not of this world,” and when men sought to make Him king He departed from them. To religio-politically make Christ king is to put the human tribunal in His place, but that is the essence of the Papacy and the beginning of persecution.