AN APPEAL FOR GOSPEL PREACHING.
MR. MOODY makes an earnest appeal for Gospel preaching. He asks that the churches may be open every Sunday night for “the preaching of the Gospel.” (The italics are his.) He bases his appeal on a statement which appeared in the Independent, that in this country 1,400 Congregational Churches and 1,750 Presbyterian Churches did not report a single accession on confession of faith during the year 1895. Upon this we shall have more to say hereafter. What we wish the reader to think of is this: Is there any relation between the spiritual decadence of the churches and the demand for religious legislation coming up from all sides? Would there be as many petitions to the thrones of men if there were more to the Throne of Grace? Verily there is a need of Gospel preaching, the unperverted Gospel of Jesus Christ, which “is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.”