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Causes of Spiritual Declension

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 23, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 24.

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Causes of Spiritual Declension

REV. DR. CUYLER enumerates in the New York Christian Intelligencer several “causes of the present wide spread spiritual declension.” He says: “One is an increasing conformity to the world among a majority of church members. A much larger percentage of wealth is spent on luxury and self-indulgence; a much smaller proportion is consecrated to Christ. There is an increasing neglect of God’s house. Prayer-meetings decline in numbers, and in unction and fervor. Far more professing Christians go to the theater and other unchristian places of amusement than there did thirty or forty years ago, and ‘advanced thought,’ and ‘liberalism’ are creeping into the bones and blood of too many ministers.”