Popular Religion by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 31, 1878

Popular Religion.

By Editor

The Philadelphia Lutheran Observer bewails the degeneracy of the times in matters of religion. It says that only a small portion of the people, especially in our large centers of population, make a practice of attending religious service; but “the most discouraging feature of the subject is not the comparatively small number of people who regularly attend the services of the churches, but the fact that most of those who do attend have become so worldly-minded, and manifest so little spiritual life and piety, that the difference between them and irreligious people is scarcely observed. Their chief idea of the church is its social brotherhood and enjoyment, without any restraint from the pleasures, pursuits and ambitions of the world.”