A CHRISTIAN PARTY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 24, 1900

A CHRISTIAN PARTY.

THE Young People's Temperance Federation decided, at a meeting in Willard Hall, Chicago, on December 31, to form a Christian party. The real Christianity does not concern itself in seeking to make men better through politics. Men can be made truly good only by divine power. And the Christianity which is Christianity in deed and not in name only, seeks to draw men into contact with the power of the Gospel so that they may be made truly good. And there is so much of this work to be done that Christians have not a moment's time to spend in forming political parties or in trying to manage them.

Any one who has read the story of the work and teaching of Christ, as recorded in the four Gospels, must be aware of the fact that the Master gave Himself solely to the work of His Father's kingdom. He spent no time in trying to remodel or purify Cæsar's political system. And surely the politics of the Roman Empire were sufficiently vile in the time of Christ to have caused Him to establish a "Christian political party" if such a thing could have been used in His work. But He had nothing to do with either forming or manipulating political parties. Would it not be wise and right for professing Christians in these times to follow His steps?