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Decline of Public Worship

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 14, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 33.

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Decline of Public Worship

QUOTING the New York World, the Washington Post of July 25, 1913, declares that there are upward of one thousand abandoned houses of worship in the State of Kansas. A State conference of pastors and teachers in Kansas recently considered this situation. The opinion prevailed that the decline of popular interest in church services is due mainly to fondness for motoring. What may be said of the decline of interest in religion in the Sunflower State applies with equal force to conditions existing in other States and other countries. The conveniences of this modern age, the influences which work in the social and business life of the present time, do not make for devotion and piety.