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Church Architecture and Spiritual Darkness

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 24, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 2.

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Church Architecture and Spiritual Darkness

The Protestant Churchman thinks this is a time when Christians ought to bear in mind that the days of the noblest church architecture were those also of the thickest spiritual darkness. On the other hand, in times of the greatest refreshing from the presence of the Lord, the days of Berridge and Whitefield, barns and fields were their chief and sometimes their only temples. And it believes that the devices of art by which the orthodox adorn the bald simplicity of their public worship are cultivating a taste which finally will be satisfied with nothing short of the gorgeous ceremonial of the Romish cathedral.