An Impossible Thing by Editor

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

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

An Impossible Thing.

By Editor

Mr. Rudolph W. Benkert sends us a call for the "Christian Party Conference," at Rock Island, Ill., May 1, 1907. The postal card on which the call was printed reached here April 29, 1907, altogether too late. Mr. Benkert has a great ambition; and we are sure the best of motives. He wishes to make this nation a Christian nation by law, but he will be sadly, sadly disappointed. His party has adopted as the basis of the platform "Jehovah's Ten Commandments and Jesus' Golden Rule," and it includes in its constituency all who can endorse this platform as a measure of just law and rule for righteous government from God, thru Christ, by and for the people." Now if Mr. Benkert knew how only one can adopt the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule he would never seek to debase them by putting them in the platform of any political party whatsoever. They can only be wrought into the heart and life by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, and any attempt to do otherwise is ever sure to result in hypocrisy and tyranny.