Extravagant by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 7, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 45.

Extravagant

By Editor

"Extravagant."—The publishers of the Brotherhood Star have sent us an article from the October issue of that journal, entitled "Politics and the Christ Life." These first two sentences are all that any one needs to read in order to get the gist of the whole. Here they are:—

"Vital interest in politics is a marked evidence of the Christlike spirit. If that statement seems extravagant, it is because of the false notion men have of politics."

If interest in politics shows a Christlike spirit, it is strange that neither Christ nor His apostles took any interest in the politics of their day. The politics of their time needed reforming as much as in any age of the world, yet Christ consistently assumed the position that His kingdom was not of this world. John 18:36. The apostles maintained a like attitude; and the after history of the church shows that the more its members mingled in politics the more corrupt it became. The extravagance of the statement above quoted lies rather in the false notion men have of the Christlike spirit.