p. 16 | A Reversal by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 16, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 16.

A Reversal.

By Editor

We used to hear the saying, "Stealing the livery of heaven to serve the devil in;" but there are some things that look like the reverse of this proceeding. More and more the professed Christian church is coming to use heathen rites and festivals in the nominal worship of God. It seems to be not enough to take up the heathen festival of Easter and call it Christian, but a well-known and influential Christian journal has the first page of its Easter number adorned with a picture representing a female form very much resembling the form of the goddess Diana. We are not saying that the figure is not appropriate; for, if it is appropriate to adopt the festival, why not also adopt a goddess? The whole principle is a marked divergence from Protestantism, and is but one of the recent innovations in evangelical churches.