Our Roman Catholic brethren have a strong hold upon the
cities--and why? Instead of putting a single priest in a great
parish, as we put a single minister, they put a whole corps of
clergy and a company of sisters to come into personal vital
touch with the people, and especially with the sick and the poor.
Campbell Morgan became pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church
in London with a beggarly attendance at the services. Soon the
building was crowded to the doors. He said: “Do not give me
credit for this great work. Give it to the twenty deaconesses
who have gone from house to house, heart to heart, pleading the
cause of Christ.”
A priest of the Church of Rome says: “We have had very little
anxiety in competition with Protestant church in our great
cities, so long as a single man was both preacher and pastor in
a great parish. But the deaconesses with black bonnets and white
ties, who find their way to the hearthstones of the people,
will win.”--J. P. BRUSHINGHAM, _Pittsburgh Christian
Advocate_.
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