General Booth on "Christianity"

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 52, 29 October 1891, Page 3

General Booth on "Christianity"

General 'Booth, in r the < course of l«is address on' lc Conqucri'i^" Chrib ti»tiny,," &t Wellinjjtoiir on Mon'lay last, dwelt at~C3n->id«rable le.ij^th on tlie prevalence of sliVn religion of the present day. There woie thousands ct ' people, he' said, who attended tlfurc'i regulsiJy, and ware careful to"obs<?iyc all the forms and outward shov, of Christianity, but vvho hid nc real religion. He likened such jieo ]>lc to" a corpse profusely decorate 1 vit. flowers in a coftin. The flowers might' bo very beautiful, and their *rnjrrance mi.: lit ovrqiower the bad odour of the corrupting fle-sh, but the bod\ f tvd&^wily coirupuna flesh after all, and whole gardens of flowers cculd not infuse a tpark of vitality into it.' rm suing the subject, the (ac-neral said thtie a great tendency to- make religion ■• only a side show instead of the" real business, oi life. People took it 'as' they took their Worcester sauce, not as the ,Amain thing*, but as a kind of flavour - ZJLing. Speaking; of the influence of the press in relisrious' matters, tl« preacher sa'd^he was airaid that Christianity could not at present expect, vpij much support from the English 'newspapers, for many of the be»t known and most widely circulated wore in the hands of Jews.