At the annual conference of the Primitive Methodists, the President, (Rey. M. P. Davison): said that a revival of pure religious fervour greatly needed. Apparently cause they could not find balm lin Gilead people in astonishing [numbers were turning to such occult things as Spiritualism, Theosophy, and Christian Science. One congregation of Christian Scientists in London claimed—to have made 1,000 converts last year, and the number of people that' were being led away by Spiritualism was said to be alarming. It was to be feared that jin order to meet the exigent leies of the time the Church has {been too much inclined to compromise with paganism.
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