The Folly of Man-Worship

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 23, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 12.

The Folly of Man-Worship

This is not meant as a reflection on the President; but that minister who felt that it was a "supreme honor" to shake the President's hand, and who wants that "splendid grip" to be a part of his "resurrection life," it may be safe to say, was never in the audience chamber of the Most High. Theodore Roosevelt is doubtless an honorable man, a fine gentleman, an esteemed scholar, and all that, and it is doubtless an honor to know him, but to talk about a hand-shake from him as a "supreme honor," and to say, "I do not think I have washed that hand with soap since," is fulsome adulation and man-worship unworthy of a man, to say nothing of a Christian minister.