A Singificant Cahge in Preasching
The most significant symptom or thefday is uot the timid aud tentative efforts at creed revision in ecclesiastical councils. It is not even the bolder admissions and conversions of au oecasioual writer of such standing and authority in the church a o to have no fear of being brought to book for M heresy; It is rather the calm acceptances of "advanced views," whichya few years ago would have caused a decided shock to rooted pie* judfees, and private evidences that many, a preacher of unquestioned orthodoxy would gladly welcome a re vivified gospel that would free him from the trammels of formal beliefs that had their origin in a more superstitions and less enlightened age. It , is not a less noticeable, sign that intellectual and educated ministers have almost ceased to preach the doctrines of. their theology. It is partly because they have ceased to believe them and more, perhaps, became they know that intelligent and educated people in tbe pews do not believe them aud can no longer be made to believe them. Neither are they any longer effective for the " conversion" aud '• regeneration" of mankind. — Alta California.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3, 21 June 1890, Page 4
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