The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-14
NEEDS OF BAPTISTS
Some Practical Advice Given BY a Butte
Pastor 10 His Flock.
An Energetic and Wise Religion 10
Most Required - The Baptists
Want More Churches
and Preachers.

Monday morning paper, n representative
OF that organ attended church this morn
ing. The FIRST Baptist, on the corner Of
Broadway and Montana streets, was the
church selected. The congregation was
not large. The acting pastor, Rev. Mr..
Pulliam, announced as his text Luke
xvi.S, 'For the children OF this world are
ia their generation wiser than the child
rem of light" The discourse was sub
stantially as follows:
"Thc men Of this world who do not care
for religion are like Shakespcare's school
boy i'm meeting their religious duties.
The school-boy gets through his studies
as soon as possible and hurries of. We
perform our religious duties in about
that way. We are not TO he slothful in
business but we ought to make Christ's
business greater han worldly business.
Christians ought to lead in organization
and work but business men outside the
churches have better organizations than
we in the church. Take for instance the
whiskcy traffic. How well organized il
il. And il does not have too much or
g%anization. Churches have too much or
g~anization. Our machinery weighs us
down like "A great shell. Its Baptist
usage To do so and So we say i'm de-
Tense of our heavy machinery.
"Some things in all denominations are
out of place. We must fit our machinery
To our case. Machinery that will do in
New York city won't do in Butte city.
Machinery that will do in South Carolina
won't do in Montana. Let MS not burden
ourselves with useless machinery.
"Recently they put a Pullman palace
sleeper on the railroad owe here and they
had tn take IL of. Those cars have six
wheels instead Of -four under a truck and
the curves were SO sharp as to make il
dangerous To run such a car on h road.
Suppose the of the road had
said those cars are the ones we run in
New York state, n we are going To run
them here. We don't care il We do run
them into the ditch. Some people in the
church would have a Pullman sleeper run
on the tracks, il il ditched the whole
world. The children of this world are in
their generation wiser Than we are. Let
us have no more wheels than are adapted
To our track. Let us take oil our sleeper.
"The children of this world are i'm agree
ment. Take the whiskey ring as "A model
organization. They always put down any
disagreement for h sake of their bust
support "A man for president ON the re-
publican ticket, they are going To he
agreed. Ii is the same way in regard To
the democratic party. We canno afford
To have any fusses m the church.
zone reason why the children of this
world succeed better is that they under
stand each other better. You are not
going to understand one another or know
where To put your money unless you have
some medium of communication. POI
litical parties have their organs and we
need church organs. We need a paper in
Montana. We ave no Baptist paper i'm
Montana aud we don't take the same
paper when we take one outside the state.
Here we are from almost every state and
| territory in the union and some from the
| provinces and old countries. One men,
Der from Kentucky takes the Kentucky Re
c%or,ier, another from Missouri the tsatrdi
Bdptist. another from Michigan, the
Christian HeIuid, and SO on. Let us take
some paper We can unite on that will give
us new of this state. We AN have cor
respondents from this state. l think the
SfdHddrd the best paper to give us news
Of thiss state. We might all unite on this
paper; -
how the devils couuscled to take first
heaven then earth, makes this significant
remark that the devils never disagree.
Men always Disagree Men of the world
are agreed; they don't split up. So ought
we 10 he agreed. We must throw away
petty jealousics. We must patiently en-
dure buIrcting. The ministers must be
agreed. | wish there were a hole, into
which every quarrelsome preacher i'm
Montana might he driven. III the leaders
spill up where WIZ ,ne nouy poillc go
Inc rhiiureh Oh the Worhu are aIso
wiser IN their IMAM we arr.
20 OUT ihto one Oh these piacSs where we
traih Stops when s,enaieu: ihSre area
lew inuu nuts ahd log capils. ion iihu
| White Elephant or Elks-Horn saloon. The
saloon Is gong 20 ger therr nrst' ougnt
we MOI To preach Tue gospel 'l,ere, even II
tley are not going 10 stay there long /!
baptists are behind every other deuoini-
nation IN Montana IN thelr work mere
They are one, II MOI the leading denou
nation IN the world. We need hfteen
more men IN Montana: we need a gem
crai missionary ahu q SUNDAY school mis,
slonary. Inc general management Will
help the churches pay them. There - no
man IN rnllipsbur. or Anaconda or Deer