SIGNIFICANT ITEMS by F. A. Buzzell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 30, 1876

SIGNIFICANT ITEMS.

By F. A. Buzzell

The general verdict of the ministry is that Messrs. Moody and Sankey have never taken hold of the masses here and influenced them as they did in England. No one hears a market-man singing, “Hold the Fort,” or a car-driver humming, “The Ninety and Nine,” nor a stevedore whistling, “Pull for the shore,” as did these classes in London.—Barleigh, N. Y. Correspondent.

These are not promising times for the cause of pure religion. We are all in that deplorable condition of mind where we have just knowledge enough to doubt the first chapter of Genesis and not faith enough to believe the sermon on the mount. . . . We have traded off all simple religious faiths for a few meager scientific facts. But there may come a time, when we think of bestowing our patronage upon some undertaker, that we shall wish to trade back again in something of a hurry.—Providence Bulletin.

One of the characteristics of our time is the lack of deep convictions. Men are driven hither and thither not only by every wind of doctrine, but by every current of feeling, impulse, and fashion. They are anchored by no eternal principle of truth and right. Of how few professed followers of Christ is it now fearlessly affirmed, He is sure to do this because it is right.—L. W. R., in Watchman & Reflector.

F. A. BUZZELL.