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Sick Divinity

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 3, 1859

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 14, No. 24.

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Sick Divinity

SICK DIVINITY.—It is estimated that there are one hundred and fifty D. D.s in the Northern Methodist Church; while ten years ago there was less than a dozen. When, some forty or fifty years ago, a Presbyterian divine inquired of a Methodist elder with whom he was traveling, "why the Methodist church had no doctors of divinity," the Methodist promptly replied, "Because our divinity is never sick." It would seem, however, from the above statement, that its health has declined rapidly during the past ten years. Independent.