A Worldly Ministry

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 18, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 41.

A Worldly Ministry

The following quotation is taken from The Free Methodist: “Five hundred clergymen, representing all denominations in Greater New York, attended a special clergymen’s matinee of ‘The Fortune Hunter’ at the Gaiety Theater.” The Burning Bush, commenting on the above, says editorially under heading of “A Worldly Ministry:” “This shows up the worldliness of the ministry of only one city, but it is a good sample of what can be found all over the land. We never yet have met a minister or a professed Christian who attends the theater, who is not worldly and

does not have a love and relish for the world; and the Word of God plainly declares that such do not have the love of the Father in them. These clergymen represent thousands of church-members, and what their pastors approve of and do, in most cases the congregations that listen to them from Sunday to Sunday will approve of and do. What prospect can there be of any kind of a revival among these churches, when the god of this world has so completely blinded the eyes of both the ministers and their congregations? . . . It is a burning shame and a great sin; and every true-hearted servant of God should cry aloud against this apostasy and flood-tide of worldliness among ministers and in the churches. The time is come for us to ask as Moses did, ‘Who is on the Lord’s side?’ Let such come out from all worldliness and follow God.”