, 1882-11-11
DrAyvood from Sunday.

Not great while ago so-calied evangel'
ist Was before an audience for the purpose
of soliciting money with which to carry on
the work OF spreading the gospel in prinsed
shape, and as persuad.r told story like
this: Il came across a cabin away from the
main road eh-And found there eh--a fam
| lily eh-In the-eh-most destitute-eh-cir-
cumstances-eh. gave them a bible-eh-
and they rejoiced-eh-at my coming eh. ="
Candidly. could hardly keep from rising
and asking this evangelist Why he did not
We the family bushei Of potatoes. My
blessed mother must have had queer notions
for she often said that the spiritual natures
Of men and women lodged between circum-
stances Of poverty which threatened their
lives, WAS best reached through a cory lire
on the hearth. n smell Of potatoes in the pot.
the aroma of steAming coffee, CHEEKY words
TO children who had shoes ard stockings On
their feet, and beyond all that, the glad
brotherly light in the visitors eye, light
rejecting from heart listening to the ''sIill
small VOICE, inasmueh ye did IT 70 them,
ye did it To me-" What strange no.ioEs that
dear old mothers heart had. But then she
dld not live when they bulk S500. 900 Young
Mems Christian Association buildings, and
the Christ in humanity did not banker for
palace offices, for which ether people paid.
In her day, men did not compel poor girls
to make pants for sixteen cents pair, and
off of the profits Of these benumbed and
bleeding fingers, i've IN frescoed parlors,
have ice-cream for dinner in winter. and
then so to public halls and talk feelinely ~
about charity and christianity. In her day,
there WAS no christian bill-poster rushing
about among poverty stricken homes, scat
tering dodgers labeled ''Be We filled" or BE
ye clothed" to humanity. feeling the hunger
and frost-bite, thrrstiag, sheltesless, human
ity My mother did not read the reports
made in rooms with Administer carpets and
goldfish 800 visits made" in Rosemary
Lane. That is, $50 christian dodgers lett
with hungry starving humanity who no
doubt ''rejoiced" at their eomin;. Now
there was such thing as christian philan-
thropy and evangelism away oE yonder,
when that dear old mother lived, but the
men and women engaged III 1t dad lot seem
to have proper Appreciation Of 1t, for they
were simple and unsophisticated enough to
labor for the mere pleasure it gave them To
do the work Of benIfcence and charity.
they glided quietly and unobtrusivel into
novels and poor-houses and sought by wise
counsel tempered with substantial aid for
the body, to lift the unfortunate inmates to
higher plane of living. They had no gos-
pei tent, no hall. 40 brass band, 10 side
shows, no self-written newspaper puifs, no
parlor bedroom at the best hotel-only
warm loving heart, only the vital earnest
ness of the true evangclist-ogly the spirit
of Christ in humanity only the sympathy
of that chiseled ant star,lingly distinct figure
in New Testament history elemental
man who, pitying the sparrows OF humanity,
could yet menace bypocrites and take on
himself, tire highes. pitch OF dcnunciation,
man in whom lay embedded the supreme
spirit Of philanthropy aud evangelism II
this man could now enter some Of the halls
and tents, where certain so-cailed evangelists
are found, His hand would be laid over their
certificates forged With His name with Il
thrill that wOuli bid the Bible open to HIS
saying Beware OF false prophets, and hypo-
critics"
Rev J. C. Patten, OF Dayton, in attend
ance at a meeting Of the members OF the
Cumberland Presbyterian church yesterday
afternoon, made a very pertinent remark
when he said: 81 have found in my expe-
rience. that pulpit IL tins country is much
more difficult to I'LL accep.abIy than in the
east. Here the place demands talent in
the east the moral support of the congreea-
ton is sufficient to keep nan IN the pull
pit" People 20 to church nowadays not SO
much as a religious duty. as, first, because
from a conventional decorum, feeling that to
make an appearance once a week IN good
clothes. is a respectable thing to do, and
second, they go to be entertained in an IN
tellectual sense. That is why the eastern
churches NAL q. such gorgeous error when
they send ont here, callow seminary stu
dents to occupy pulpits. Ii the power Of the
pulpit is on the wane out here that Is mani
testify the cause OF it. The pulpit can exert
an influence for good upon man better na
ture independent Of all dOgmatic teaching.
but seminary students cannot do it-not In
such community As this He must be a
man bf commanding intelligence, having the
strength of genius, a man OF literary actIv-
ity, with fine, brght-tempered scholarship,
elevated in his tastes for art, music, criti-
cism, an eloquent man, and one who takes
fair, strait 9hr-forwAri hold 0. life actualities
as we live them tO-dav.