p. 7 | Note and Comment

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 27, 1902

Note and Comment

“SMOKING Church Services” are the latest innovation in London, reports the Literary Digest. These “services,” it adds, “promise to attract workingmen who have hitherto been outside the pale of religious influence. Archdeacon Wilberforce, of Westminster, started the movement in April by inviting the men who were fitting up the Abbey for the coronation, to attend service in the cloisters during their lunch hour, and giving each man an ounce of tobacco. Many accepted the invitation, and joined heartily in the services.”

To this it seems appropriate to add the comment that the church might be made still more attractive in this same line to most people by breaking down all its barriers of distinction between godliness and carnality, and making it like the world altogether.