p. 741 | POPULAR PREACHING by F. J. Dye

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, November 25, 1884

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 61, No. 47

POPULAR PREACHING.

By F. J. Dye

As indicating the kind of gospel that is heard from many modern pulpits, the following list of subjects is taken from the announcements of the various churches of this city on a recent Sunday: “Open Wide the Gates,” “Taking in Coal,” “Simon Peter Saith, ‘I Go a Fishing,’” “The Foolishness of the first Chapter of Genesis,” “Gospel Bells,” and “The Geological Search for Adam.”

Evidently we have reached a time when the words of the prophet are strikingly fulfilled. How applicable is his description to the popular, ease-loving professors of these last days! “Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come [margin, the latter day], for ever and ever: That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord: which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophecy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits.” Isa. 30: 8–10. The apostle Paul, in his charge to Timothy says, “The time will surely come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned unto fables.”

What observer of the signs of the times can doubt that the time of which Paul spoke has fully come? F. J. DYE.

Minneapolis, Minn.