Religious Intelligence

Under this head, it is difficult to write, unless the building and decorating of churches, ordaining of ministers, or the fashionable movements in certain place amongst some classes of grown up people, who having become tired of dancing have decided to join the church,-may be received as religious intelligence. The fact is, or appears to be, that a total indifference to the subject, farther than the fashion or the honor of this world requires it, pervades all sects and denominations, beyond any precedent for the last forty years, at least. Our missionaries appear to have accomplished nothing of importance for some time past, and some appear to have but little hopes that they ever will. Whatever may be the occasion of this apathy, this one thing is abundantly evident; that there never was a time in which the evidences of the truth and divine origin of the sacred Scriptures were more conspicuous or abundant, not in which there was greater inducement in a rational sense, for people to become truly pious and obedient to the Gospel injunctions, than there is at the present.


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