Article October 19, 1899 Issue

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The statement has recently been published that conversions are comparatively few in the Protestant churches, and are becoming fewer still with each passing year. This complaint does not proceed from unreasonable and censorious critics, but from wise and good men whose word is entitled to great weight.

Does not careful observation prove that much less attention is being devoted to the conversion of sinners now than in former years, and that conversions are not so frequent as they formerly were? Is it not possible that Christians are losing interest in the conversion of sinners?

Many interests now engage the attention of ministers and churches. We are building and endowing educational institutions. We have several great publishing houses, from which we are sending out millions of pages of religious literature every year to bless the world. We have many strong organizations for the collection and disbursement of millions annually for religious purposes. We have an immense young people's organization, into which many thousand young men and women are being gathered for discipline and training for future usefulness. To all these Christian institutions and enterprises we say Godspeed.

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