Ministers and Political Office by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA · Nov 14, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 44.

Ministers and Political Office

By Editor

"What about a minister running for a political office, as, for instance, Dr. Bechtel in Colorado, a candidate for governor?" O, nothing about it. In doing as he is now, he has, of course, done either right or wrong. He may be doing right in forsaking the profession of the minister and becoming a politician. This may have been the business he has been working in all these years, and the place to work at politics is outside instead of inside the church. He may be doing right and simply going to his own. If he has been a true minister of Christ, he ought so to remain. It is an awful step downward from the pulpit to the political rostrum; from the minister of Christ Jesus to the self-seeking politician.