A GOOD CONFESSION by K. C. Russell

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 17, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 42.

A GOOD CONFESSION.

By K. C. Russell

It is a source of encouragement to learn occasionally of those who are willing to confess the truth of the Gospel when the Lord brings it to their attention. The following, from the New York Christian Advocate (Methodist), discussing the “rite of feet washing,” says:

“The arguments in support of the rite of feet washing are not easily disposed of. Being snowed up on a train in Maine for many hours, an attempt was made by a person on board to convert us to the proposition that there is as much argument for making a permanent rite of feet washing, as there is for making a permanent rite of the holy communion. . . . We have to confess, however, that, after much study of St. John, we know of no way without the aid of ecclesiastical tradition to answer fully these imitators of Christ’s example.”

This is a good confession, but to have it acceptable it should be followed by rejecting the error and adopting into our practise the truth that has been shown us. K. C. RUSSELL.