A Romance of Two Centuries : a Tale of the Year 2025
The book A Romance of Two Centuries : a Tale of the Year 2025 was written by author Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan, 1871-1940 Here you can read free online of A Romance of Two Centuries : a Tale of the Year 2025 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Romance of Two Centuries : a Tale of the Year 2025 a good or bad book?
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On Easter and Christmas, perhaps, there were large congregations ; but usually there were more empty than full pews, and even so there were pews for not more than one-quarter of the population." "And I suppose the ministers were put to all ex- tremities to draw congregations?" "Alas ! Each one had to employ ingenuity greater than that of his nearest rival. Since the majority were of course the most unspiritual, the means chosen to attract them had to be suited to their unconsecrated natures, an...d services had to admit all kinds of pictur- esque and vaudeville features, to the detriment of the pure spiritual purpose, which, after all, was the funda- no A ROMANCE OF TWO CENTURIES mental object of the whole endeavor. It used to be a most inexcusable waste of effort." ''And did they ever move the churches?" I looked up with surprise akin to fear, on so vital a spot had my comrade blundered ; — there could not have been any malice in this young girl's curiosity. "Yes, they did; and often there was spent more on the moving of a single building than on the whole missionary budget of a denomination.
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