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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 13, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 18.

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Fashionable Religion

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The Albany Argus says: "The theaters were shut on Good Friday night for the first time in the history of New York. That shows how it has become suddenly fashionable to be religious during Lent. Whether there is an increase of piety is another question." It may be set down as a fact that the amount of piety in "fashionable religion" is nothing. Another thing may be noted, and that is, no part of "religion" ever becomes fashionable, except that part which has no Scriptural foundation. Whenever any religious ceremony becomes fashionable, you may know that the ceremony is one that originated this side of Bible times, or else in ancient heathendom.