Article April 2, 1904 Issue

Churches Losing by their Own Offspring

Philadelphia (Pa.) Evening Telegraph

In an address delivered before the Baptist Social Union of New York, the Rev. Dr. Russell H. Conwell declared that the churches are rapidly being submerged. There is no real growth in membership, Dr. Conwell said. Churches are uniting and disbanding and churches are moving from down town to suburban points, with loss in power and numbers.

"And it's all the fault of the churches," he explained. "The blame alone is theirs. They are being submerged, swamped, as it were, by organizations they themselves started.

"The Young Men's Christian Association is a continued permanent protest against the failure of the Church to do what it ought to do, and it would have no existence had the Church done as it ought. The churches started the hospitals, gave them their right of existence, now there is scarcely a denominational or even religious hospital to be found.

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