How it Would Be | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 26, 1882

How it Would Be.

ONE evening, says Wm. Howie Wylie, at a small literary gathering, a lady, famous for her "muslin theology," was bewailing the wickedness of the Jews in not receiving our Saviour, and ended her diatribe by expressing regret that he had not appeared in our own time. "How delighted," said she, "we should all be to throw our doors open to him, and listen to his divine precepts. Don't you think so, Mr. Carlisle?"

Thus appealed to, he replied: "No, madam, I don't. I think that, had he come very fashionably dressed, with plenty of money, and preaching doctrines palatable to the higher orders, I might have had the honor of receiving from you a card of invitation, on the back of which would be written, 'to meet our Saviour'; but if he had come uttering his sublime precepts, and denouncing the Pharisees, and associating with the Publicans and lower orders, as he did, you would have threatened him as much as the Jews did, and have cried out, 'Take him to Newgate and hang him.'"