An Evil Mixture

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 22, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 46.

SOMETIMES two or more substances, each innocuous or harmless in itself, form when combined a powerful explosive or deadly poison. It is an evil mixture. The devil has many such. By the harmless unit he deceives; and many deceived souls do not see the evil of the mixture till too late.

This is preeminently true in the religious world. The state is good and is needed. The church is better and is more necessary. Each has its separate and proper sphere in this evil world. But united they are a deadly curse, an incubus too heavy for any people to bear, destructive to both church and state.

The federation of churches, based on compromise, is an evil combine, and is bound to become more political than religious. This great organization sends out through one of its committees subjects for study during 1911. Some of these subjects pertain to children, to purity, to right training, and amusements. There are other good things. But among them are studies on the weekly rest-day, defined therein to mean Sunday. Other committees of this great federated body are working to obtain a Sunday law, to place religious tenets in civil statute, to control the state through this religio-political combination. The mixture is evil and only evil, however good and capable the men behind it.