From the Boston Herald we extract the following recent pulpit utterances:—
"The Rev. Thomas Van Ness preached yesterday morning at the union service in King's Chapel, from the text, 'The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.' He said, in part:—
" 'In every age it has been said that religion is dying. Today, after a century of scientific investigation into all things, Huxley has affirmed frankly that science has discovered nothing of God that was not known before. And, despite the fact that the last census shows that the increase in church membership is proportionately greater than the increase in population, religion is said to be on the decline. In reality, we are watching the old religion on the ebb in anticipation of the coming of the new religion with the flood.
