A Wesleyan pastoral recently issued to tho Methodist societies in Great Britain and Ireland by direction of the president of the Wesleyan Conference, expresses regret that for the second year in succession a decrease in church' membership ia reported. Methodists arq urged to revise their interpretation of religion and to test afresh their standards of Christian life, taking for their gnides, not the vafjuo opinion l !'of an age of enfeobled faith, but the lifo of the Apostolic Church and the teaching of tho Now Testament. In the spring a young man's fancy ' Lightly turns to thoughts of loto, Troo to Sue, or Jane, or Nancy, Through the Summer ho may prove i But in Autumn and 4 grim Winter He's no ueo for girls demure, Ho gets cold, and then hie fancy Tune to Woods' Great Peppermint Cwrh' S3
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 695, 21 December 1909, Page 11
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