THE New Orleans Independent (Methodist) has been investigating with a view to discover the great cause of the present low condition of the Christian church, and has come to the conclusion that it is persistent indolence and indifference on the part of the majority of the membership. It says: "The majority of professors seem surprised that you expect any work from them. . . . As for visiting the sick, feeding the poor, gathering the destitute children, or speaking to the unsaved, they never try it—never make a single personal effort to do good from one year's end to another. It is surprising what easy Christians smart business men make. . . . A community of Christian farmers who know how to improve stock and make a farm pay, and who keep their own houses neat and trim, will let the house of God become shabby and the church die out, because as farmers they work, but as Christians they do not work. . . . The curse of the church to-day is a lazy membership."