p. 244 | THE WEAKNESS OF THE CHURCH

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 19, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 16.

THE WEAKNESS OF THE CHURCH.

THE church is strong in number, in learning, and intelligence, and strong in wealth and social influence. And yet the church is weak, unable to grapple successfully with the error, the immorality, and the sins of our country and the world. . . .

And why this weakness? What is the cause of this inability of the church to make itself felt as a powerful and dominant force in opposition to all these evils? Is it not the prevalence of a worldly spirit in the church? Because the church is so much conformed to the world, to its sentiments and customs, it cannot earnestly and consistently insist on reforms along lines where itself needs to be reformed.—United Presbyterian.