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FORMALISM VS. TRUTH

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 24, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 42.

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FORMALISM VS. TRUTH.

[Apropos of the frequent exhortation to make the church service attractive, the London Freeman has the following.]
A PLAGUE on your old-fashioned ways And preaching doctrines stern: We come to church to be amused, And do not want to learn. From thoughts of judgment or of sin We find our spirits shrinking; We want to rest on Sabbath days, And not be set a-thinking.
To hear the music people come, And not to praise or pray; Let there be nothing to offend And drive nice folks away. All preaching for our age should be Made brief and bright and breezy; That sermon surely is the best That makes religion easy.