A TABLOID RELIGION.
PASSING SALUTE TO-CHURCH
"'ln our machinery age,' some men are advocating a tabloid religion—a passing salute to the holiness of Go«i and the claims of spiritual'life," said the Itcv.i A. N. Scotter, 8.A., presidentof the Method-isiKConfereuce, in his sermon at AVesley Church yesterday morning. "A brief half-hour in the morning is considered enough for worship and the church. It is not because these are suppressed souls without opportunity of recreation. These who demand this tabloid form of religion hay*,^ such easy .circumstances that they 5.% not feel the need for spiritual life ane: for thought on eternal verities." But, surely, urged Mr. Scotter, one day in seven was a minimum for th«| needs of the soul. Six days of persistent contact with material claims demanded ■ the Church '3 day of' united communion and of service for her advancement. A tabloid religion would not do. If the Church was an end in itself, one might satisfy her claims by ;i brief salute and an offering. But the Church was the custodian of the Gospel. She existed to lift-up. Christ before men, and the greatest thing in the world was the Christian Gospel. :
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 10
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194A TABLOID RELIGION. Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 10
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