3945 - Feet Washing by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 24, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 50.

3945 — Feet Washing

By Editor

Why should we not wash each other's feet? I belong to the Missionary Baptist Church, but believe strongly in feet washing.

It would seem that the ordinance of humility as given by our Lord in John 13 is just as clear as any other instruction in the Bible. We have our Lord's own example, and then we have His "ought" as well,—"If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you." And then He confirms these things by saying, "If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them." Certainly those who have carried out the ordinance in the spirit of it have demonstrated the Master's words.