The Gunpowder Gospel

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

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

The Gunpowder Gospel

They are true—the following words—whoever said them: "There is no religion in this gunpowder gospel. If it is necessary to go in conquest across the ocean to shoot our religion into those people, then the time is not far distant when we will be busy at home shooting our particular brands of Christianity into our brethren—for the love of God here below." Jesus said to His disciples, "The time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service;" and then He gives the reason why they can so think: "And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor Me." John 16:2, 3. The true Christian will never preach a gospel of force, or enforce a gospel of peace.