King Caucus Dethroned by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 28, 1911

King Caucus Dethroned

By Editor

"King Caucus Dethroned" is the heading of an editorial in Harper's Weekly. Colonel Harvey refers to the caucus in Congress, its proclivities to program, and its power to put in practise its policies. It ought to be dethroned not alone in State but in church. It is well for leaders who have served to outline what they believe to be the best for the future of any religious body; but it is pure politics which will call together the cliques, program the future, and rush it through regardless of the opinion or will of the church or their constituents. Yet this is what is done in religious bodies over and over. We said above that this was "pure politics;" we used the term to mean that it was politics only, and not the high standard of religious principle which ought to obtain in all things professedly Christian. But it is not pure politics in the flattest political sense; it is the worst kind of politics in the long run. A political party may long survive such methods; but the church of Jesus Christ loses her power to fulfil her mission when she stoops to such methods. Her high mission is to witness for the Master, and by the power of His Spirit save souls. But the repudiation of heavenly principles, and the adoption of worldly policies, strip her of that power and make her a field for missionary effort, and not God's spiritual force in the winning of souls. Let King Caucus and all his kin be dethroned in the church forever.