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BISHOP THOBURN'S MISTAKE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 42.

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BISHOP THOBURN'S MISTAKE.

BISHOP THOBURN says: "In my early work I made a mistake of fancying that if I could get hold of the influential part of the community I could get hold of the masses. I have learned that this fancy is contrary to reason and history. Christianity was founded by beginning at the bottom." When will the church learn the truth of this remark. We are bending all our energies to secure the rich,—building churches to attract them, accommodating our preaching to their prejudices, and fawning over them in a soft and pleasing manner to win them to us. After all this effort little is accomplished; the rich go on in their pride, and the poor fail to have the gospel preached unto them. When will the church aim at the foundation and rescue the poor?—Selected.