NOT THE BEST OF LOGIC by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 4, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 40.

NOT THE BEST OF LOGIC.

By Editor

In its "Jangling Voices" department the New Voice has the following:—

"I never vote; such matters do not interest us. Our citizenship is in heaven; we are aliens and foreigners here. I have no more business to take a voice in the affairs here than I would have to go to England and attempt to participate in the government. Heaven is my home.—A Chicago clergyman, as quoted."

"On the same principle, we suppose, the pious brother, if he happened to be in England and saw a child drowning, would say, 'I am an American; I'm a foreigner here; Chicago is my home'—and let the baby drown. We should respect him just as much for such a course of action as we do in view of his position now."

Now we do not know what clergyman said that, nor do we care; but we do know that there is no such logical sequence from his remarks as the Voice draws. We are glad that prohibition rests on better logic. The man who is truly a citizen of heaven is a follower of Jesus Christ; and he will do all in his power for his Master's sake to help temporally and save eternally every soul he can, whether Englishman, or American, or Chinese, or Hottentot, or Filipino. Our friend is guilty of awfully poor logic; in fact, it is no logic at all.