Does It Accomplish Its Purpose?

            Lastly, the mission of amusements fails to effect the end desired.  It works havoc among the young converts.  Let the careless and scoffers, who thank God because the church met them halfway, speak and testify.  Let the heavy laden who found peace through the concert not keep silent! Let the drunkard to whom the dramatic entertainment had been God's link in the chain of their conversion, stand up!  There are none to answer.  The mission of amusement produces no converts.  The need of the hour for today's ministry is believing scholarship joined with earnest spirituality, the one springing from the other as fruit from the root.  The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt, that it sets men on fire.