Declining Standards in Baptist Churches
By Editor
A CORRESPONDENT of the Watchman says: "In any of our large Baptist Churches of New York, a motion to put a member under discipline for going to the theater, or for playing cards, or for dancing, would be refused serious consideration. . . Within forty years there has been a great change in the mental attitude of our people in regard to amusements." Upon which another Baptist paper remarks: "When you add to this the fact that the pulpit of the First Baptist church of Boston is occupied by a New Theology preacher, the outlook for pure and undefiled religion in some of our city churches certainly is not overly flattering. We sometimes doubt if as much good could be said of them as of the worst churches in Asia that were so severely condemned by the revelator."