The State of the Christian Church
We are rather surprised to find a fresh young newspaper like the Boston Globe, notwithstanding, as we are told, it has just come into its fortune, taking low and disparaging views of the present state of the Christian church. It tells us that “the worship of mammon is fast superseding the worship of God and Christ, in many of our most orthodox churches;” and the devil, in his purpose “of stifling the best instincts of the human heart, and of undermining every vital precept of Christianity, is getting along very well.” Moreover, the Globe goes so far as to say: “Swindlers occupy some of the best pews in our fashionable churches; mothers sell their daughters to the richest libertine who makes the highest bid for their innocent, maidenly offspring.”—Sel.