A Gloomy Prospect by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 14, 1884

A Gloomy Prospect.

By Editor

A CORRESPONDENT of the Christian Statesman writes thus of St. Louis, Mo.:—

"In a population numbering half a million, it has churches enough to seat thirty-seven thousand people, but these churches are not half full. The pastors almost all complain of the growing difficulty of getting their members to attend. Dr. Nichols, pastor of the largest Presbyterian Church, told his people lately, 'I must leave unless you attend better.'"

This makes a church attendance of less than one-fortieth of the population, with "a growing difficulty of getting their members to attend." The prospect for the speedy coming of the millennium is not good, unless it can be brought in by amending the Constitution of the United States! But we fear that even an Act of Congress would not Christianize St. Louis, nor any other of our American cities.