Methodism and Mammon

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 11, 1883

Methodism and Mammon.

THE “watchmen” are not all entirely blind as to the state of affairs in the professed church of Christ. The New York Christian Advocate bewails the condition of the Methodist denomination as follows:—

“Many things show that the Christian churches of this country are beginning to reap what they have sown. Sermons against covetousness and against the dangers of making haste to be rich have given place to discourses on the ‘Moral Uses of Wealth and Luxury,’ and things of that sort. Little public and less private admonition has been given to the disciples of Christ against the thirst for material gratifications and possessions, the great temptation of our times. Many congregations have become temples of fashion and pride, and their ministers priests of Mammon, though using the forms of Christianity. Methodism has not withstood this generation as it should have done, and Methodism must wear its proportion of sackcloth and ashes.”