What Must I Do to Be Saved?

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 26, 1914

What Must I Do to Be Saved?

ACCORDING to a representative of Zion's Herald, the seeker after God would find no answer to his soul's inquiry in visiting some of the leading churches of Greater Boston. We quote from the issue of the above-mentioned paper for January 7:—

The striking facts noted were that the young were not present, that the gray-haired and bald-headed listeners predominated, and that the sermons in every case were addressed to the church. Not a single minister, by Scripture reading, sermon, or prayer, made any reference whatever to the non-Christian contingent. "If," says our reporter, "any one had gone to any of the churches visited with the burning inquiry upon his lips, What must I do to be saved? he would have been sent away unanswered."

What is the explanation of the strange fact thus revealed? Are our ministers drifting unconsciously away from their chief business, "to seek and to save that which was lost," and are the churches thereby losing their grip upon the younger generation? If so, what is to become of the future of the church? Where will its membership come from?