Is It Not So Now?

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 29, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 22.

Is It Not So Now?

THE church is the spouse of Jesus Christ, married to Him by individual faith as expressed in baptism. See Rom. 7:4; Gal. 3:27; 2 Cor. 11:2. Christ is to be the Head of that church in all things, and that church is to be His fulness in the earth. Eph. 1:22, 23. When a woman leaves her husband and unites with another man, she is called an adulteress; and so also when the church leaves Jesus Christ and unites with the world she becomes a harlot, guilty of spiritual fornication. James 4:4; Jer. 3:20. Has not the professed church of

Christ already done that in her union with the State over the matter of Sunday laws—a purely church dogma? Is not Christ sufficient? Is His promise of all “power” thru the Spirit of none effect? Are the broken cisterns of men to be compared with the Fountain of Life?