Hypocrisy in Popular Christianity
The emptiness and hypocrisy in much of the popular Christianity of to-day are clearly recognized in a recent article from the pen of Oliver C. Miller, of Washington, D. C., chaplain in the United States army. He exclaims: “Only think of the fashionable church-goers who have for long weeks fluttered, butterfly-like, about the ballroom, lingered till midnight over the card table, or gazed with delight upon the fleshly scenes of the stage, reveled in all those things that feed the desires of the flesh, until they have become so wearied in body and sick in soul that they must rest for a while, forsaking the world, in a formal way, for a season [during Lent], clasping the gilded prayer-book with jeweled fingers, and going in solemn and awful mockery before the altar of the Lord!”