Becoming More Common by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 4, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 43.

Becoming More Common.

By Editor

Laudation of the Roman Catholic Church is becoming more and more common in Protestant circles. The Rev. S. Sherin, of Chicago, is reported to have said, at the Intercivic Philanthropic Conference, at Battle Creek, Mich., October 17:

"Despite adverse criticism, no church is doing as great philanthropic work to-day as the Catholic, yet masses, solos, and sermons will never accomplish what is needed. Intemperance is thriving, despite the efforts of the church. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was organized and sent a thrill through the land, but it has gone into political trickery and will never put down the traffic. The Young Men's Christian Association meant to do good, but is worldly. It ought to be buried. It is but a corpse. As a philanthropic movement it is a fraud, tho as a club it is entertaining."

Now all this may be true of these organizations as bodies, tho we are sure many individuals in