Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-31

time at least. A strong and united
effort should be put forth to make of Mime,
sofa the most popular place for tourists in
the known world.
i, SENSATIONAL PREACHERS.
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus
the Lord; and ourselves your servants for
Jesus sake II. CORINTHIANS Iv;5.
The early preachers in the Christian
church must be credited not only with the
possession of zeal but with sincerity. They
were chosen to their high calling expressly
because Of the possession of these quail
ties. They were pioneers in the new dispen-
sation, and all the attributes of pioneers in
the work of civilization were required of
them. They preached the gospel untiringly
and expounded the law of Christ in such
manner as to persuade thousands to forsake
the error of their way. They we're noble
examples of Christian charity, of fidelity,
zeal and devotion, and it is to be regretted
that they have no more initators at the pres
ent day.
Of late years new class of preachers
has grown up, especially in this country,
who seem to regard the preaching of the
gospel as secondary consideration. They
may be classed under the general head of
sensational preachers. Dazzled by the
ephemeral popularity of few of the most
prominent members of the class, the young
or members of the cloth seem to be endeav
oring to ape them in both manner and sub
ject matter, and the ranks are constantly
increasing. There is continual straining
after sensation and novelty, to the great
detriment of true, pure Christianity. Every
city has sample or two of this class of
clergymen. The latest sensation in politics,
in criminal annals, or, in fact, in any direc-
ton, furnishes topic for sermon, which
is generally we'll advertised IL. the news
papers and afterwards published if the
preacher has enough influence with an ed
itor to procure its insertion in the
columns of the paper. There is
little of morality, and less of religion in
these efforts. They but serve to pander to
morbid appetite, which is form of vice
more reprehensible and more injurious to
the morals of the community than any other
in existence.
We have stated that the notoriety attained
by these preachers is but ephemeral. We do
not hesitate to say that their downfall is as
certain as the crack of doom. A few nota-
bic examples may be cited. Kalloch was a
sensational preacher, as long as he occupied
the pulpit, and his very sensationalism
desire for something new with which to
tickle the fancy of his hearers, led him into
gross trangressions of the rules of propriety,
and wrought his downfall Murray was
another Of the same kind, and his fall is of
such recent occurrence that it needs no re-
capitulation here. Fulton is another who
for time created great sensation in
the religious world Of Brooklyn. He
is now almost forgotten. Mccarthy
and Ravlin,. of Chicago, have also gone to their
graves, fguratively speaking, and will never
again be heard of among the eminent lights of
the pulpit. Talmage, the most conspicuous of
his class, has already started on the down
grade, and on his return to Brooklyn next
month. he will be compelled either to quit
the tabernacle or his denomination. This
has been brought about partly by his cratic
course in the pulpit and partly by his speech
at the close of his recent trial on the charge
of falsehood and deceit, in which he ridiculed
the presbytery for its adhesion to old fogy
notions, and threatened to work revolution
in its system of theology. A majority of the
trustees of his tabernacle, finding that,
though his pulpit antics attracted crowd
it did not pay the immense debt, have resolv-
ed to ask his resignation on bis return from
Europe, and to insist upon it. But Tai
mage will not give up without struggle,
which will precipitate another church scan
dial and result, as it usually does, in the dis
comfture of the preacher and to the great
detriment of religion. . F- ."' !
The fact is that the majority of popular
preachers owe their popularity not to the
in which they preach the gospel, but
to the manner in which they avoid doing so.
They are generally eccentric, or wish to be
so regarded. If they can do so they make
themselves the talk of the town, get their
remarks printed in the public
press, and in every other way they can de-
wise seek to be regarded as outre. In this
way they degrade their sacred calling to the
level of the mountebank, bring ridicule on
the cause of religion which they profess to
but do not teach, and for few years of very
questionable popularity sacrifice lifetime
that ought to be devoted to doing good and
building up the church. The mania is not
in ministers of the gospel, and is
doing much to impair the usefulness of the
whole body of the clergy. Popularity, So
called, is often achieved at the cost of ones
reputation for sincerity and consistency
Those who win the greatest success in the
of souls from the paths of sin
are seldom those who are the most pop
ular. .
THE MURDER OF MRS. M'MASTERS.
It is no disrespect to Mrs. McMasters or
upon her memory to consider the
question whether she was murdered or not.
It is week since the GLOBE pretty clearly
that foul murder had been
but both friends and the police
have treated the matter MS though it were an
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