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D. D.'s UNCHRISTIAN

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 29, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 10, No. 26.

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D. D.'s UNCHRISTIAN.

By James White

Bro. Cowles, editor of the Oberlin Evangelist, says, and well he may, “We have stubborn misgivings about this entire system of honorary degrees on the ground that it conflicts with the spirit of Christ's admonition, [Matt. xxiii, 8,] ‘Be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren.’”—Golden Rule.
The Scripture says, “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” The Oberlin Evangelist now before us has on its first page as follows, “Rev. Henry Cowles, Editor.” The only place in the Bible where the word reverend occurs is Ps. cxi, 9, and refers to the name of God. To accept the title of D. D. is vain, but to take that of Reverend is presumptuous. J. H. W.