St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-13
"sIGNs OF THE TINES"
A Rabbits Plain Talk---The Pres
byterians Break Away.

At the meeting of the liberal minis
tiers yesterday morning Rabbi lliowitzi
read an interesting paper on 1.-The
Signs of the Times" He laid particu
lar stress upon the fact that in these
days money was the god that ruled the
world. There is no place, no church.
said he, but what Mammon cannot EN-
Ter in. Even justice is blinded by gold.
Then there is public opinion, which is
responsible for much of the wickcdneSs
of the world. Even the average minis
ter does not preach to his congregation,
for if he talks against intemperance he
offendS some one; if he says that gam
bling is wicked he hits some one else,
and if he breaches against the eXtrava-
gance of women the ladies of the church
become convinced that he is not fit
man to occupy the pulpit of their par
ticular church. Much harm is done by
this keeping up appearances. Women
will dress in silks and laceS when they
know their husbands cannot afford it,
and men will drive double teams when
they know they should walk. An ami
mated discussion followed, in which
Rev. Mr.. Shutter and Rev. Mr.. SIM
mons criticised the paper, holding that
it was one-sided and greatly eXagger-
ated the evils of the present day.
THE ORTHODOX MINISTER'S.
Rev. Mr.. BaScOm, at a meeting of the
orthodox ministers, read q paper on
utah and Statehood" which was very
interesting. The paper was written by
a resident of this city, and held that
Utah should have all the privileges of
been missionary among the MOrmons
fNI, fNyn
sion which followed. He claimed that
the polygamists controlled everything in
Utah, and had even gone so far as to
control some of the United States sena-
tors. The Mormon oath is lie and I'M
reliable; polygamy is essential to their
religion, and they claim, is only to be
wiped out with blood. If Utah is adj
mitted as state, GentiliSm will be
wiped out by the revolverS of the
church's assassins. Rev. Mr.. Van Eos
sen, chaplain of the Soldiers home,
made arrangements for various minis
tiers to hold meetings at that institution.
Next Sunday Rev. DR.. Wells will preach
there.
FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE.
Since the Methodist ministers with
drew from the general Monday morning
meeting of city pastors, and gathered by
of the other denominations have, to
some extent, been thinking of doing
likewise. Now it is the Presbyterian
ministers who will break away from the
union meeting. 1--WE should not have
taken that action had not the MethOdiStS
withdrawn" said Rev. DR.. Burrell yes
terday. THAT makes three ministers
meetings Oh Mondays, and it is only
question of time when all the denOmina-
tiOnS will withdraw. We will probably
meet with the other ministers once a
month. Our first meeting was to have
been held this morning, but there were
not as many here as we wanted. We
have about twenty ministers in Mime
apoliS and the same number in St. Paul.
so we can have large meeting il they
will all turn out. l don't know just
what excuse we have for withdrawing,
except that Monday is Blue Monday
with the minister. He cannot rest on
Sunday, so he rests on Monday, and he
doesn't know just what to do with him
social character. If they are made too
literary, they will become tiresome.
am sorry that the Methodist brethren
took the step that they did. Had they
not gone off by themselves we should
not have taken this STEP"
At the meeting of the Methodist min
listers, Rev. M. Smith, Of Litchfield,
made an excellent address, giving his
views on the changes that should be
made in the presiding elder system.
There are now five districts in each con-
ference, and the speaker held that the
number should be reduced or the NUM-
Der of elders increased, as at present the
work was far too hard. An animated
discussion followed, in which many of
the clergymen warmly advocated Mr..
Smiths views.