The Limits of Americanism

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 29, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 13.

The Limits of Americanism

MANY people in the United States seem to think that everything in the line of Christian life and Christian work must be American in order to be effective. But Bishop Cranston (M.E.) slightly punctures this little bubble when, in speaking of probable mission work in the Philippines, he says, "Manifestly we are bound to do something in America, or enlarge our idea of Americanism."

It is time would-be Gospel workers were learning that the "American" blanket is too short to cover all the temporal and spiritual interests of the earth. The Christian church was purer and more effectual in its efforts when Pagan Rome ruled the world than it ever has been since.