Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by his pen name…Mark Twain. He wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn among other well known novels. But he was also a well known humorist and a friend of presidents.
This is what he had to say about Christian citizenship in Collier’s Magazine in 1905. This is a long quote: “Is there such a thing as Christian citizenship? No, but it could be created. The process would be quite simple, and not productive of hardship to any one. It will be conceded that every man’s first duty is to God; it will also be conceded, and with strong emphasis, that a Christian’s first duty is to God.”
“It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code of morals to the polls and vote them. Whenever he shall do that, he will not find himself voting for an unclean man, a dishonest man. Whenever a Christian votes, he votes against God or for him, and he knows this quite well. God is an issue in every election; he is a candidate in the person of every clean nominee on every ticket; his purity and his approval are there, to be voted for or voted against, and no party can absolve his servant from his higher and more exacting fealty to him; he takes precedence of party, duty to him is above every claim of party,” end of quote from Mark Twain.
The Bible speaks about government, if our leaders don’t do what God commands does that mean we can skip being the citizen that God wants us to be?
This is Carl Ramsey and that’s Another View of the News.
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