New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-28

The church debt is the apology for denying all appeals
for aid from all the greater aud smaller charities
church sitting in the shadow of great debt, no: at
homo 10 callers. They do not pay the debt. but they
owe the money and they afraid they shall be Obliged
psyit. The heather mast take care OF Themselves,
the starving must go without bread, the widow
and the iathtress must look to the God OF
the widow and the fatherless, the sick must
pine, and the poor children grow up in vaga-
bondage, because OF this awful church debt. All
the me2uness in church sknlks behind the debt, OF
which intends to pay very little, while ali the noble
ness feels really poor IL is conscious that the
debt Is be paid, II paid at all, by ITSELF Again, a.
church debt IL q scarscrOw TO all newcomers
stranger taking up his residence in any town. looks nat
urally sor the church without debt He has horror
Of debt any SORT perhaps and as he had no RESPONSE
biity for the church debts he finds he docs not propose
voluntarily to any. 50 he stays away from the
debt-rdIcn church. and the very means that were
adopted axe the cdifce attractive, become naturally
and inevitably. the agents OF repuision Debt-riaaan
churches With good preachers do not need TO look be-
yond their debts for the reason which prevents more fire.
quent and remuneratiye acccssi0ns to their number
Still again. church debts ntoerabe burdens 10 their
ministers They must draw I'm order that the debt
may be paid. II they do not draw, they must leave,
to mako place Who viii. TIE yearly deficit Is
all awful thing for n sensitive minister to contemplate,
and puts him under constant end cruel spur which,
sometimes swiftly and sometimes slowly, wears out his
life The feverish desire, the part Of churches,
for brilliant sensational preaching 10 frequently
generated by The debt than by other LII many
instances the minister IL forced into being politician
manager en- intreuer q socetyhunter, rather than n
soul-aeeker. This latter point il painful one and We
90 not propose dwell upon IL but the Difference TO
the Of money, shown In churches, is certainly
very ltiul, when Its cause is fully understood"
With regard TO the Effects Of the panic hi the
depression Of business, the editor 10 not sanguine OF
speedy recovery. lie has faith that remedy he
found either in shipload Of rags mountain " gold.
lie protests against flooding the country with paper
promsea They have been curse TO the people. But
even II return to specie basis the good old times
will be restored long business is attempted tat
does need to be done. " II have more mills than
we need railroads than ncei, more commercial
agency and middle than need the surplus must
necessarily be unused ust DO used without profit,
and such way destroy the prot. Of oil engaged
In common lines Of interest," The following suggestions
significant, though not perhaps conclusive:
SO we do not look lden revival OF business any
longer. diagnosis Of the IA correct, there
be no sudden We Of this generation will barily
live to zee the country genuinely prospeIons Great
Of property arc to be abandoned. The capital
stOck Of multtndes OF corporations VIII Do sunk and
their property will into the hands OF bondholders
and crcditos Ut such price that thaY may possoy No