Merritt Cornell was an early Adventist, who participated in the Millerite movement, and was brought into the Seventh-day Adventist church through the labors of Joseph Bates.
This is the first of a series of smaller publications from his hand. He had a talent for gathering and organizing quotations from sources past and present, to support the present truth.
This booklet is about the decline of spirituality in the churches who had rejected the gospel in the Advent awakening. Some of the things mentioned might seem rather mild to us today, as the apostasy is much more developed in our time. But this booklet shows the beginnings of that world-bound drift, and can serve to help us analyze our own lives, to make sure we are not walking the same downward path. 32p
