p. 16 | Christian Citizenship

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 30, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 29.

Christian Citizenship

Sometime, when too late, the people of the United States will know the curse that there is in the winning term of "Christian citizenship," for which the National Reform Association and kindred bodies are working. Next year a national Christian citizenship convention is to be held in Portland. Efforts are made to get speakers of national and international renown there to push the thing on. Noted returned missionaries will be speakers, and the president of the National Reform Association, Henry C. Minton, is on the coast to promote the affair at the present time. The Commercial Club of Portland is raising, or endeavoring to raise, $15,000 to pay for the advertising. And all this to be centered on the union of church and state, for that is what "Christian citizenship," in its last analysis, means. The world has had Christian citizenship, and demonstrated what it means. It had it during the Dark Ages; it had it during the Puritan régime in Massachusetts. It had it at the time when witches were burned, and Baptists and Quakers hung. And wo worth the day when the United States has it again, under whatsoever régime.