Not a Cheerful Note.-

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 4, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 22.

Not a Cheerful Note.—

The Methodist bishops, in their recent General Conference, report that a half million members were lost during the last four years from the church rosters, who have removed from one place to another without having taken and presented their letters within the year. They say, “We face the patent fact that our distinctive doctrines are not being emphasized as they once were, or, where preached, are discredited for the time by a gainsaying world drunk with vain philosophies and, sated with gluttonous indulgences.” But they may expect to see more and more of this as federation proceeds. Every worldly tendency in the church is to hew down the pillars of distinctive doctrines of Christianity. In fact, that is the very object of some of these movements.