Waning Membership

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 2, 1910

Waning Membership

THE English Methodists, according to the Christian, London, have experienced a loss of considerably over two thousand members during the last church year. The loss for the last four years amounted to nearly ten thousand. The Christian affords no explanation of this loss in membership, but hints that failure in adhering to old doctrines and methods has had much to do with it. According to the United Presbyterian, the Christian offers this suggestion:—

Unhappily, too, the apathy of which we hear so much nowadays is by no means confined to the pew and to the man in the street; and the fact is being widely ignored that the men who have boldly proclaimed, in season and out of season, the exceeding sinfulness of sin, the need of repentance before God, and of faith in the finished work of the living Christ, have always been instrumental in leading souls from death into life.