Pro-Political Preaching
By F.
“POLITICS would seem to possess an irresistible fascination for many ministers,” says the editor of the Christian Herald. “Instead of preaching the gospel, and giving its modern application, they pull up the spiritual anchor, and go drifting about on a dangerous tide, to anything but the edification of their congregations. It is little wonder that people lose the feeling of reverence for a church which mixes partisanship and salvation indiscriminately. The truth is that a political sermon comes perilously close to impertinence, and is wholly out of order, unless there be some supreme moral issue at stake — some great wrong calling aloud for redress.” The Christian Herald is to be commended for its attitude toward this vital question, in these days of pro-political preaching. Such sound principles cannot be too strongly emphasized. The business of the Christian minister is to preach the gospel — not politics.