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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 11, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 17.

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PROGRESS OF APOSTASY.

By J. Clarke

Some affirm that there is no such moral fall as is asserted to be in the church and world. Let such note the following from the Advocate and Guardian, Vol. 26, No. 9:
"Upon the best authority we assert that pauperism and crime are swelling to a height which threatens to overflow all our former social and moral landmarks, and to blight society itself with an intolerable scourge."
Still more startling is the statement that thirty-eight per cent of all this wretchedness is native born. The cost of pauperism and crime (in N. Y.) in 1858, was $800,000. The problem of city evangelization is one of the most difficult which could task our powers.
J. CLARKE.