A New Church by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 3, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 38.

A New Church.

By Editor

A church has been organized in the Middle West called the "Church of Humanity," starting out with a membership of one hundred. These one hundred, it is said, have learned the "truth about God." They have applied for and received certificates of graduation in the knowledge of God and life membership in the Church of Humanity. The promoter of this intimates that he had a pretty hard time in hunting the one hundred members. The "truth about God" as they hold it is that there is no such thing as God, that "God is a myth;" and they want to "save" others to that same blank and awful negation. They print their first hundred names, and, sad to say, there are nearly a score of women in it who subscribe themselves as utterly rejecting Christianity, the religion which has lifted woman from the degradation of a beast or a slave to the position she now occupies in civilized countries. These people think they are saving others from idolatry in inducing them to believe that there is no God and that Jesus Christ is a dead man. They say we are worshiping a man-made god. Granting all that they believe in this respect to be true, what worse is it to worship the God of the Bible than to worship self? For that is in reality what these people are doing. They are setting themselves up as God, each one the sum of his own ideas, his own desires, his own passions, and his own knowledge, as the highest of all tribunals, and the end of it all is blank nothingness. They have placed the limit of their minds upon their own conception alone. Nothing, nothing have they to lead them out beyond themselves. There is an old saying in a certain Book of a class of people who are "ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." When the calamities predicted by the Man of Nazareth, whom they call "a dead Jew,"—calamities that come in consequence of man's sins,—occur, many of those who have received their certificates of graduation will be pleading for mercy to something beyond themselves. We do not envy them their knowledge, or belief, or assurance, or wages.