| Show m c W OP The decline of Methodism Ii IA On of oC the phenomenA ot of the tho PT mt at time It I Is acknowledged b the Methodist themselves What do we wc Ice f today write one of them a failure family religion liMping away end and prayer pryer In lipid insipid These are aign ot of decay day pronounced to attract I generl eMral notIce A Catholic In ChI ChICago CUD Cago on thi subject and the decline to the fact IhM III hi an l religion Hysteria It aa cn can near ner be an enduring substitute for faIth and grace Irace There It II some truth In this to b be a success must to every faculty of oC mAn It lighten his intellect penetrate his hll heart sad guide hi his will as wIll well at awaken rails all beCaUse In It II doctrines Ilbe It Ings to an u age e that I Is Past and In Its HI activity It exhibits exhIbit too much It Its and aUlI aries being more mar concerned about I a hiving than IRing for an ideal Idel But this I 1 only one cause ot of the a acline fit din cline Methodism In common rommon with tv eral other limP Im has thoroughly failed to grasp grall the burn burning In questions of oC the dar 4 though thoun painfullY concerned about burning At some IOme future time Christianity when In Inthe Inthe the world At once II a force among nien It a r II a more exalted virtue than that known among the pagans parans It m made men man honest trUe and humble It leveled distInctIons by pro proclaim Ine the doctrine of at II a universal brother brotherhood brotherhood hood It seated the master and the tho slay the patricIan and Ind the lame caine table u the Lord They wore nil brethren A new erR en had d up upon on the world Th The foundation was laid for future equality In Ue the KIa state to n as In Inthe the church A solution had been found for fen the of that dey But what hat do and so au on stand for Cor todar There are re 1 a number ot of social which at al times threaten moet moat serious What advice tins has for fol the healing ot of the wounds of the bod body politic What does dOli It o otter to lb the weak who feel feol that they ar gradually being pushed to the thew w 1 by those who by accident Or t i shrewd calculations have become I strong Itron Ministers are afe oCt often en told that I It I Is poor consolation to the hungry and nd the oppressed In the world orld to learn that it If they are re pi patient and nd good they will go 0 to 0 heaven hereafter What Is needed II I a religion that Points out tb man how hol to make Gods will nant on earth II as It I Ii In hea heaven en The allure to do 10 o II the greatest i lot of the declIne of the domInant of oC the world and particularly ot of which Is Ie more theory than Ihan more appearance thun The Th belongs to 10 the ot of Jesus which comprise ovary every l Human aNd both hire mind hereafter every err plant not planted b by the or of IU all shall Iball be rooted tip up Tile The has bu already set In The ne end ii 11 |
