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-----MODERX CHRISTIANITY.

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MODERX CHRISTIANITY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE GTTAKDXAN. SIR,—In reading your report of the opening of Esciusiiam Church, one paragraph filled my soui with sadness. church" (your reporter states) "was crowded with a large congregation, including represen- tatives of the principal families in Wrexliam and it- neighboarhood." This was clearly act a gathering of mere ignorant uneducated Dissenters, drawn together by idle curiosity toO hear and see a Bishop, but the very cream ot the Churchmanship of the locality. And yet we read that after the Lord Bishop of the diocese had ended bis discussion, "the bulk of the congregation then retired a few "remained behind" (more strictly speaking, had the reverence and decency not to leave the church in the middle of the chief Divine office of the day), "and partook of the Holy Communion." What a sad, lamentable sight! Alas how common a sight it is to see a large congregation of Baptised and confirmed Christians very attentive, apparently, to the preaching, and to every part of Divine Service, except that one which the Lord appointed Himself? Our people do indeed want teaching. How wonderful it is that persons calling themselves by the name of Christ can thus leave His own command unfulfilled. And yet it is not really to be wondered at when one remembers the timid tone of modern sermons, the hesitating statements of the deep principles of the Christian faith one hears from our spiritual pastors in these degenerate days. By the redemdancy of Biblical platitudes the modern preacher manages to appear to say much, but in reality he says little or nothing. The natural consequence of such teaching is what we see around us, not at. Wrexham only, but everywhere through the length and breadth fof the land. Modern Christianity, the religion of "the great bulk of our congregations," has no positive substance and reality about it. Many a man's religion consists of nothing but protests and negations. There is many a clergyman who appears to make it the chief thing to teach bis people not to believe the Gospel, but to dis- believe the errors of other men. People so taught are not likely to remain behind," with reverence and godly fear, to partake of, and to celebrate, the great Christian mysteries. VOX CLAMASTIS IN DESERTO.

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