The Church and the World

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 15, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 15.

The Church and the World.

—The New York Journal of March 18 tells us that “what made the hit at a minstrel performance, given by the young ladies of St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, of New Brunswick, N. J., in Columbia Hall, last evening, was the burlesque on the Bradley Martin ball and the representation of the Journal’s “Yellow Kid.” Blackened faces, short skirts, silk hats, various dances, and a fancy skirt dance were among the attractive features. The report says: “It was easy for the audience to imagine itself anywhere else than at a church performance.” And so it is also with the various sorts of things held in Protestant churches. The churches are coming together—with the world. Thank God, there are many in Zion who still hold to the old-fashioned religion of Jesus Christ. Would that all did