A Falling Away in Methodism
By Editor
A correspondent in Los Angeles, referring to the address of Bishop Montgomery before the Methodist university of Los Angeles, noted in our editorial columns, says: “Imagine Wesley’s listening with ‘round after round of applause’ to the enunciation of such sentiments, against which the Reformation was launched. Babylon and her daughters are on better terms than during the days of the early Reformers. So far as I know not a voice has been raised in opposition either to the action of the university authorities in inviting the bishop to speak or the principles inculcated. The utterance of such doctrines in the presence of the Protestant clergy without a word of dissent, can not have established in the minds of the young men and women who heard them a greater appreciation of the Scriptures or the truths for which the martyrs of the inquisition died. There has been a great falling away in Methodism when such things come to pass.” And he speaks truly. Is it not time to preach God’s message of to-day, found in Rev. 14:6-12?