Today's gospel has been watered down so thin it has lost the miracle working power of regeneration and is producing a shallow, casual, unregenerate religion. First of all consider the moral condition of our country. The figures have been published so many times they do not need to be reprinted here. Crime is at an all time high. Juvenile delinquency increases every year.
Divorce rates climb every year.
Jail houses, penitentiaries and detention homes are packed to overflowing. Drunkenness and dope addicts mounts with each passing day. Illegitimate births and abortions increase every year. Murder, rape, suicide, and robbery scream the headlines of our papers. The nation reels down the path of the pursuit of pleasure.