Show all the protestantism different protestant sects throughout the united are in ft more orleaf broken and dilapidated condition they have been losing strength and vitality especially ally with remarkable rapidity of late yeara their poor feverish false ayatch of stimulating fervor by bo called revival meetings haa petered out miserably all over the land protestant Protea tant churches as a rulo have a very beggarly meager the sabbath the exceptions to this rule are to bo found only whore the great fame or notable personal ability of the hireling preacher commands adt nira lion and attracts men of all shades of religious opinion who love to listen to an eloquent and polished discourse protestantism is indeed numerically strong in many places but it lacks animation it has no great vital living soul sion if if ever had one and it probably had is evidently finished and all the different sects only represent so many imbecile bodies that cumber the earth in moat churches everywhere there ia usually a hartling array of empty benches at sunday and other religious services and a constant lamentation over this of affairs is every abero heard from sectarian pulpits all over the country we may say that this continued wail over the unpopularity of their services is a characteristic act of all the christian even including the catholic and it has now become quite de among the protestant de nomina eions especially to avail themselves of any catchpenny catch penny movement going in the chape of salvation armies moods moodys and San keys jerry me alleys converted burglars blacksmiths and such like to attempt to draw tho crowd in the circus sense they may draw for the mo ment especially if they havea good clown such as well it would be cruel to mention names and besides such names are legion but the people soon tire of tho show and of the religious acrobats in a few days all is over there has been no revival of religion the show has lost its attraction the managers are denounced as lers religious indifference resumes its sway and tho last condition of these poor people is worse than the first the churches are more vacant than ever save where a steady and really clever clown may continue to draw by force of hi spiritual contortions somersaults and an bics tics generally the kingdom of heaven is not to be taken by such violence as this so it has become n recognized fact that protestantism is daily broadening or narrowing as the word may be into atheism or infidelity it would seem therefore that christians of all descriptions ought to have enough to do to fight against the disintegration of their own churches without engaging in or urging on a warfare against the cormons mormons Mor mons yet nevertheless such is not the case we do not know of a christian pastor anywhere that is not always ready to neglect the decaying faith of his own flock merely to lie about the cormons mormons and deepen popular prejudice against hem this is ft pretty certain sign of imbecility when a creed has lost its own grip its sup porters always feel like abusing ome more promising rival the cormons mormons have suffered much from misrepresentation and calumny persecution and prosecution but they are rising into the ascendancy all the lame because tho truth is with them this ia enough to make I 1 mercenary christian preachers bit ter and jealous but they would j find it just as profitable if they would pay entire attention to their own demoralized affairs and leave tho cormons mormons alone |