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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 10, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 18.

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The Idolatry of Talent

By F. W. Robertson

THERE is in our day a marvelous idolatry of talent; it is a strange and grievous thing to see how men bow down before genius and success. Let us draw the distinction sharp and firm between these two things; goodness is one thing, talent is another. When once the idolatry of talent enters the church, then farewell to spirituality; when men ask their teachers, not for that which will make them more humble and Godlike, but for the excitement of an intellectual banquet, then farewell to Christian progress.—F. W. Robertson.