Inflamed Conscience by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 23, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 37.

Inflamed Conscience

By Editor

Inflamed Conscience.—One of the purposes of the Christian Citizenship movement is said to "inflame the public conscience." That is what an apostate Christianity has always endeavored to do; and it has inflamed it in its pathological and worst sense. It did it in the days of Constantine and Justinian, and the fever and corruption of the Dark Ages followed. Its result will be the same to-day—a sick body politic and a sicker church. The inflamed conscience in favor of a union of Church and State will become a seared conscience when the "heretical" children of God and the principles of truth and justice are on trial. What the public conscience needs is life from God, and this would come by a faithful preaching of the Word of God, the Gospel of Christ, which knows no political salvation, no Gospel of force.