The Signs Of The Times Or A Glance At Christendom As It Is Classic Reprint

Author : Minot Savage
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483309135
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Signs of the Times (Classic Reprint) written by Minot Savage and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Signs of the Times Church, whether people were loyal to it or not, whether peo ple attended the services or not, the Church then stood for and represented what were practically the common ideas of all Christendom. But to-day what? We have only to Open our eyes and look about us, we have only to listen to the complaints that come to us from the pulpits, from the reviews, from the religious and secular newspapers, to see that the Church no longer holds the position which it once did in either the faith or the reverence of mankind. Men used to believe that the Church held the gift of salvation. The ma jority of people to-day perhaps believe nothing of the sort. They believe that the Church is a good thing, that it stands for certain high ideas, that it exerts a certain fine, elevating influence in society. Many people believe that the doctrines of the Church do really embody the one God-given plan for human salvation. But there are very few people who think that it is absolutely necessary to be a member of the Church or even to attend church, in order to please God or to serve their fellow-men. The Church, in other words, has no longer any such hold as it used to have on the belief, the reverence, or the practical obedience of men. There is a great break up. The fragments are moving, and taking shape in this direction and that. The Roman Church itself feels the change. There is a process of disintegration going on within it. I shall have occasion to treat of this by and by. I only call your attention to it this morning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.