Churches and Grog-shops.
By J. H. W.
BROOKLYN, N. Y., is often called “the city of churches,” it being somewhat remarkable for the number of its churches, and the comparative number of its church-going people. Its real or comparative church influence may be learned from the following, which we clip from the religious news items of the Boston Journal:— “A correspondent of the Reflector, writing from Brooklyn, estimates that 37,000 people in that city go to church every Sunday, and 75,000 go to the 1635 grog-shops every day in the week!” The ministers of most Protestant churches persistently preach that “the world is growing better,” and as Brooklyn is one of the most religious and worshipful cities of Christendom, it presents probably one of the strongest evidences that the millennium is dawning! It is astonishing how well-meaning people will preach this delusive doctrine of the world’s conversion, shutting their eyes both to surrounding facts everywhere presented, and to plain Scripture declarations on the subject. J. H. W.