A Church Flag | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 29, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 35.

A Church Flag.

Bishop Leighton Coleman, of the Episcopal diocese of Delaware, has inaugurated a scheme for a general church flag. Because the flag is a means of stirring up a spirit of lively remembrance, and inciting to heroic deeds, he thinks it would be a good thing for the church. So he has adopted one for his own church, and hopes that the matter will receive general attention. His flag is nine feet six inches square, with seven purple bars alternated with six white bars. In the center is a white square in which is a purple cross of the form of a bishop's cross, the two pieces being of equal length and crossing in the center. It is to be unfurled on special church days only, "so that when the people see it flying, they will be led to inquire why it has been raised on that particular day, and will find out what the festival is or what prominent event is commemorated." Of course such a project would be for the support of some man-made feature of religion, as it could not in any way further the interests of Christianity. Human inventions in religion are always for the furtherance of some human dogma.