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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
Pages might be filled with statements from

leading men and papers in the religious world,

acknowledging the low condition of the

churches generally, and the many evil

practices of which they are unblushingly

guilty; but it is unnecessary to multiply

testimony on this point. The sad and

deplorable fact is too evident to be denied.

The leading Methodist paper, the Christian

Advocate, of Aug. 30, 1883, contains an article

headed “The Greatest of Questions,” from

which we copy these statements: —

“1. Disguise it as you like, the church, in a

general sense, is spiritually in a rapid decline.

While it grows in numbers and money, it is

becoming extremely feeble and limited in its

spirituality, both in the pulpit and the pew. It