DANGEROUS REVIVALISM.

Marlborough Express, Volume XIX, Issue 115, 18 May 1883, Page 2

DANGEROUS REVIVALISM.

Mil Brown, than whom no man has a better right to speak on the subject, thus refers to new-fangled methods of evangelise the masses : — " Just now evangelistic enterprise is in a feverish, and therefore unhealthy condition. All sorts of extraordinary experiments are being tried without a question concerning the Master's warrant. Fiddles, tambourines, military titles and uniforms, song sermons, and < every imaginary claptrap device are in full swing, and things are done in the name of Christ sufficient to shock and horrify any soul that has nny reverence for the Holy Master's name. The Jesuitical doctrine that ' the end justifies the means ' is spreading its poison in all quarters, and one wonders with dread what the next method to reach the masses may bo. These delirious efforts are doing terrible harm to those who put them forth. They drink of the rank sensational cup" they offer to others, spiritual taste becomes vitiated, and the worship of Jesus Christ grows insipid and needs the hot spice of something sensational to give it tlavor. Even if these methods were a groat success our judgment concerning thorn

would not bo altered. The Church of Christ is not responsible for success, but for faithfulness to her Lord's commands. But are they a success ? A genuine, not apparent, success ? Our deliberate opinion, aftci living and laboring for many years among the class for which these efforts are specially intended, is that they are not. While here and there a soul is truly converted, hypocrites are bred wholesale." —"Christian Commonwealth," February 15.