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THE DIFFERENCE IN TONE

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 21.

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THE DIFFERENCE IN TONE.

I confess our later generation appears unjust, frivolous, compared with the religion of the last or Calvinistic age. There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world running through diaries, letters, and conversation—yes, and into wills and legal instruments also—compared with which our liberation looks a little foppish and dapper. —Ralph Waldo Emerson