WHY DO NOT MORE MEN ATTEND CHURCH?
-Indisputably women represent the largest percentage of any congregation. Why ? A worthy divine interviewed a hundred men, and among prominent reasons for nonattendance were the following:— Criticisms of church organisation, ministry and members. Some claimed that the church was not social; others objected to creeds, while others claimed that the preaching -was not " practical"; that ministers dwelt upon the supernatural, assuming what the hearer doubts, failing to emphasise what all believe, taking up the doctrinal rathsr than the ethical; others claimed that ministers fail to reach men because they are too "credulous," not taking the scientific method into their thinking ; others excused themselves by finding fault with the unworthy church member; but none ot these were the reason for Mr William T. Richards' non-attendance, for he writes from Moonta Mines, S.A.:—"ln 18891 lay swollen with dropsy and dying with Bright's disease. All else failing, and in despair, I used Warner's Safe Cure." In 1896 he writes:—"Six bottles of Warner's Safe Cure and phials of Warner's Safe Pills cured mc, and I have only lost two days'work since that memorable time." __—______—————__—.mw——
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9669, 6 March 1897, Page 8
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