The Times in Which We Live

     We have fallen upon other times than the church of God ever saw before; times in which the same amount of religious and moral influence which once availed to advance the cause of Christ will not enable it to hold its own.  The intellect of man, wakened up to new activity, has burst the chains that bound it, and the barriers that confined it, and with ten-fold means of influence, is going forth in its mightness to agitate society.  Old foundations are broken, and principles and maxims are undergoing a thorough and perilous revision, and that too upon a mighty scale.

-The Evening and the Morning Star