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Critique of Methodist Pulpits: Sermons Lacking Christ

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The S.D.A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 8, 1880

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 14

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Critique of Methodist Pulpits: Sermons Lacking Christ

A REVEREND gentleman, writing in a recent number of the Courier Journal of Louisville, arraigns the preachers of the whole Methodist Church in the most sweeping terms. Among other things, he says: “Forty or fifty years ago, ‘Christ and him crucified’ was the constant theme of almost every clergyman in the land. Now, sermons are tolerated in which the name of Christ never enters, even by indirection. . . . The sermons are largely political speeches, with a text hung loosely at one end. Think of a Protestant pulpit devoting its discourses to the election of Gen. Butler in the orthodox city of Boston!”