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Show Secularization of Modern Church One of the Great Dangers of the Times By BISHOP CHARLES P. ANDERSON (Episcopal). .Religion has become so secularized that clergy of the present day are becoming largely business agents of their congregations, rather than priests and pastors. The net result of this secularization of religion it that it is at a low ebb. As priest and bishops of the church, we are spending a disproportionate dispropor-tionate amount of time upon things which have to do with business, with I financial campaigns, with new buildings, with raising budgets and meeting meet-ing quotas. Secularization of the church, in my opinion, is one of the greatest dangers of modern times. Most of our parishes today are one-man organizations. The clergy themselves are partly responsible for this. Organs and farnaces are the greatest troubles of many clergy, when these problems should trouble only vestries and the laity. All this is evi'ieiice of the need for developing a greater leadership among the laity of the church. The development of such a leadership is the primary object of the bishops' crusade which the Episcopal church is launching on a nation-wide scale. The primary object of the crusade is to deepen the religious life of the church membership. Secondly, it is the Conversion of those whom the church is not now reaching. i |