The Pulpit Turning Traitor.
The Golden Censer, speaking of one of Mr. Moody’s sermons, utters the following just criticism upon the religion of the present age:— “Mr. Moody’s sermon on blood, is meeting with much opposition. The papers report that in its delivery he made reference to sensational clergymen, saying that ‘there are some preachers who have power and eloquence, but they are preaching a religion without blood in it.’ And a popular religious weekly commenting upon the sermon has this quotation: ‘The blood of Christ was not shed upon Calvary. He died of slow pain and exposure. The blood of Christ was not shed for a world.’ If this is not a plain denial of the atonement, we do not know what is. Is it possible that our popular preachers and our learned religious papers have got beyond the blood of the Lamb? But then it is one of the anomalies of the age, and clearly indicates that a dry rot is eating out the spiritual life, and that infidelity is openly confessed in pulpit and press. When the preacher turns traitor may God help the people.”