An Ominous Sign

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 15, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 11.

SIGNS of weakness and old age are very apparent in the churches, says Rev. J. Morgan Gibbon. "The very worst sign I see in the churches as I go up and down the country is not that the congregations have dwindled, or the revenues fallen, but that passion has so largely gone out of men. The spirit and the fire have cooled. We hear a sort of invalid talk — the kind of thing you hear in invalidish lodging-houses at the seaside. People will not go to church, because it is so cold, so dark, so wet! Nobody expects anybody to make sacrifices. Religion has become very reasonable, very tolerant, very broad, and it has the world's benediction. The world never said nicer things about the church than it does to-day. Men call us broad-minded and progressive. . . . Let us turn away from this worthless benediction of men, and seek the benediction of the Master, and at His feet learn a wiser, braver, stronger, manlier Christianity. Let us cease to be hypochondriacs." — Present Truth.