People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — Not a Christian Nation. [ARTICLE]

Not a Christian Nation.

A radical and unadulterated gospel knocks on the head a lot of unmeaning talk about Chriatian nations. There is not a Christian nation in the world today. A Christian nation would be a nation composed wholly or chiefly of Christian persons. Where is there such a nation? We sometimes hear men talking about England and America sending rum and ruin to other countries, and then winding up with, "and these are Christian nations.” Fiddlesticks! Because a nation formally recognizes the Bible, does that make it Christian? Not at all. England a Christian nation! Germany a Christian nation! America a Christian nation! They are flooded with drink of hell’s own brewing; they are reeking with Iniquity; they are crimson with blood; and men dare to call them Christian nations. Could a Christian nation pour distilled damnation down its throat? Could it legalize prostitution? Could it fill the high seas with ships of war? Could it keep men armed to the teeth? Could it spend a thousand times more for drink, tobacco and harmful luxuries than for sending the gospel to the heathen for whom Christ died? Of all the bitter delusions that ever filled men’s minds, this is the worst. There is not such a thing as a Christian nation on the face of the earth. There are some nations that have a measure of civilization, and for this we thank God, But such a thing as a Christian nation does not exist. — Ram’s Horn.