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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07
FATHER HEFFRON.
Gods People Must Not Go Hungry
in His House.

Well, have no complaint to make as
far as Catholicssare concerned. At the
cathedral we have six services every
Sunday and they are all well attended.
Beginning at 6 o'clock, mass is cele-
brated every hour up to half=past ten.
So you see if our church is not spacious
enough to contain all our people at one
service they are all able to gain entrance
when there are five. Yes, we have
evening service--vespers-ev Sunday.
Some do not attend because they cannot.
They must work Sunday and weekday.
late and early. for their daily bread.
But even those who work on
Sunday may often attend an
early mass. L refer to those
working in hotels and to railroad en-
ployes. What | say of the cathedral is
true of all the Catholic churches in the
city, as far as l know. To get people
to go to church various things might be
done. For instance, preachers could
pose, declaim, rhapsOdise, prick up the
ears of their hearers with an occasional
sensation or novelty; the church could
vie with the concert hall or form itself
into social nucleus. But, withal. the
theater, museum and opera would out
do the church and draw from church
goers. Elaborate programmes will only
interest few, and will not interest
long if given in the name of divine wor.
ship, unless there is something solid
behind it all. The cause of falling-otf
in church attendance is religious indif-
ference. Men may think of God, but thew
don't feel the need or obligation of public
worship. Bring the people to church
by every worthy means; hold them by
preaching the gospel. There is mag
netism enough in the message of Christ
to draw and to hold. We want no
estheticism, no eclecticism. Gods peo-
pie, because forsooth poor and uncul-
tured, must not 60 hungry in the Faith
er's house. Let the pauper kneeI by
the prince: if God is pleased with the
combination we ought to be. People
should go to church to worship God, not
to be entertained. When religious feel
ing is educated up to this standard
there will he no complaints about
church going. +. r. HEBRON,
Pastor of Cathedral,
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hortations and songs and prayers more
of what Queen Balkis brought TO Solo
mon-namely, more spice
The fact is that the duties and cares OF
this life coming to us from time to time
are stupid often and inape and intoleras
Die. Here are men who have been bar
terlng and negotiating, climbing, pounds
ing and hammering for twenty years.
forty years. fifty years. One great, long
drudgery has been their life; their faces
anxious, their feelings benumbed, their
days monotonous. What is necessary to
brighten up that mans life and to
sweeten that acid disposition, and to
put sparkle into that mans spirits? The
splcery of our holy religion.
must confess that great deal of tie
religion of this day is utterly insIpid.
There is nothing piquant or eleyating
about it.
We need to put more spice and en-
llyenment in our religious teaching
whether it be in the prayer meeting or
IN the Sabbath school or III the church..
We ministers need more fresh air and
sunshine in our lungs and our heart and
head.
We want fewer rhetorical elabora-
tlons and fewer SeSquipedalian words,
and when we talk about shadows we do
hoI WdnC 10 say adumOratlonS, ana
when we mean queerness we do not
want to talk about idiosyncracies, or if
stitch in the back we do not want TO
talk about lumbago, but in the PLAN
vernacuiar preach that gospel which
proposes to make all men happy, honest,
victorious and free.
In other words, we want more CHINA
mon and less grlStle. Let this be so in
all the different departments of work 10
which the Lord calls us. Let us be
plain. Let us be earnest. Let us be
common sensical.
Il. DEWITT TALMAGE.
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EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
Ring the Bell Loud Enough and
the Pews Will Be Filled.

Theodore Parker once said to me that
if you rang the bell loud enough people
would come to church. They certainly
came to his church, which had no pres.
tige of organization or old association
to call them together. At bottom l aEl
disposed to think that his remark may
be taken as the best answer to your secN
ond question.
Men work very hard through six days
of the week in America. Tradition and
Scripture alike give them reason to ex-
pect rest on one day i'll seven. AS
church service is generally conducted, L
do not think they get the kind of recre-
alton at church which most of them
Il rather dwell on the original meanings
of the word re-creation). | am disposed
to think that when man goes to
church and finds that he goes out
stronger than he went in-better able
TO meet llfe-he goes again. If he does
not gain this he will not go again.
In recent number of the Homiletic
Review, which gives themes for ser
mons for clergymen, | observed that
there was but one of perhaps hundred
themes which had any reference what
ever to the special affairs off the nine
teenth century. That one, indeed, SER
mon for hospital Sunday, aud a sermon
might have been preached for hospital
Sunday ten centuries ago as well as
yesterday. | have been in the habit
of thinking, also, that sermons which
simply define the position of particular
ecclesiastical organization, restate its
dogma Or press its method, are regarded
by the rank and file of people as being
preachers argument to Justify his eX-
istence. Now, whatever else is certain,
it is that nobody wants to have a man
talk about himself, and do not believe
people care to hear man talk about
the class to which he belongs.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
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r. +. MACLAREN.
We Need Such Preaching as Fell
From the Lips of Christ.

We Need Such Preaching as Fell
From the Lips of Christ.
| am not at all surprised that some
people do not go to church. We praise
God and preach righteousness in our
churches, and there is great multitude
of people who have no love for either
God or righteousness, and who act as
if they would not feel at home even in
heaven. If preacher rubs the fur of
the human animal in the right direction,
encourages him to do about as he likes,
and talks eloquently of the progress of
the age, it is to be expected that he
will, for while, have quite crowd,
especially If he throws in good muSi-
cal programme and charges nothing.
But when a preacher follows the eX-
ample of Christ he not only tells of the
love of God but also smites, hip and
thigh, all manner of selhshneSs and
meanness among the high and low and
rich and poor. He takes down the
pride of men and demands that they
must allrepent Of their sins and get down
Oil their knees before God. 1t is not
wonderful that great many people
have no love for such preaching as this
and prefer to go to Sunday theaters and
other similar places. And yet it is
fact that the preacher who is the most
fearless and hits sin the hardest is in
the end the most popular and has the
largest permanent crowd. The people
respect his honesty; they know that
they deserve all he gives them, and
they find that he is their best friend.
To get people to go to church, then, we
need more positive, emphatic preaching
such as came from the lips of Christ
We need to have our churches overflow
with love and sympathy for all who are
i'll trouble and sorrow. We need not
only fill seats in our churches, but also
fill hearts and hands.
y Il NJ Ac,r orN
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r. HEBER NEWTON.
A Lack of Sympathy the Cause of
the Empty PeWs.

In response to the queries, '.Why do
people stay away from church ." and
"What is the best way to get them
there?" l would reply very briefly, be-
cause, as it seems to me. the question is
capable of very brief answer.
In my Judgment, two things largely
account for the STAYING away of so
many people from church.
First-The too general lack of svm
pathy OH the part of the pulpit with the
intellectual movement of our age.
n Second-The equally general lack of
sympathy on the part of the pulpit with
the social movement of our age.
The first creates an intellectual alien
alton on the part of sthoughtful, edu-
Gated people.
The second creates moral alienation
on the part of right-minded, earnest
souled folk, who recognize the evils of
our present social order and conceive
the prime duty of religion to be the cor
rection of these disorders.
The way to get people back into the
church is to make the pulpit face
squarely toward the light and the right.
R. HEBER NEWTON.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07
S. G. SMITH
Stirs the People to the Necessity of
Religious Culture.


The chief reason that people do not
go to church is that they do not think it
necessary. AS matter Of fact, there
has never been time in the great cities
that the people have gone to church en-
maSse.
AT the present time there are so many
other absorbents of time and attention
that the churches cannot hope to draw
as matter OF competition in attractive
ness. The people must somehow be
brought to feel that churchgoing is a
necessity.
Churchgoing must come to be viewed
as a part of essential discipline of life,
and people must compel themselves to
go, whether they like it or not. If re-
ligion is not as necessary as books,
schools, art, and the like, the churches
have no chance. They cannot, at least
| they ought not to, compete with min
strel shows.
AT the same time, good sermons, good
| music, free seats, a social democracy,
intellectual honesty, religious fervor,
and in general. freedom and simplicity
are all helps. But there is not enough
| of all these to meet the universal de-
mand, and there will not be in this
generation.
Therefore the only way to solve the
| problem is TO awaken the people to the
necessity of religious culture.
SAMIJEI, G. SMITR
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Why do so many people remain away
from church? What can be done to in
duce them to come?
The Sunday theaters turn away hun
dreds from their doors. The Sunday
ball games are we'll attended. The
suburban resorts are all crowded Sun
day. The great majority of the people
go anywhere but to divine services.
And why? No class of men should be
better able to answer tie question than
The clergymen, and of these men, both
in St. Paul and elsewhere, the questions
have been asked. Some of the minis
ters have been too busy carrying out
their theories to talk about them. Some
Of them contend that attendance at
church is increasing instead of decreas-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07

mind, people tire of the temple, remain
at home. or seek in more congenial
quarters such as the profane lecture
hall, or the opera house, food and
charm for their souls. Preaching,
and music, and ritual, and
personal magnetism of the minister
have their usefulness in church work,
but only in secondary manner; and
inasmuch as they are the Towering of
deep religious faith, animated with its
life, and bearing its spirit to the souls
of worshipers and hearers. To bring
men to church. let ministers make their
temples truly the houses of worship and
prayer; let them clearly and persua-
sively expose and defend the ground
work of religious teaching; let them
teach religion. People will not HE
themselves Sunday morning to churchs
for the purpose of listening to disserta-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07
DIR. JOHN HALL.
Ignorance of Obligations as
Cause Of the Lack Of Interest.


Cause Of the Lack Of Interest.
Why do people stay away from
church? Some are ignorant of the uses
of the Sabbath and of the obligations to
keep it holy, as they are ignorant of the
religious truth to be taught in Gods
church. Many who do know these
things, in part, ignore them because
1.-THE carnal mind is at enmity against
Cod" Many are engaged in forms of
work. money-making and sin which
they know are condemned in
Gods house, and they do not
wish to be made uncomfortable.
Many have, from various causes, formed
habits of church-neglecting and there is
nothing influencing them against these
habits. A small number have believed
the DEVILS lies as to the church being
only for the Well-to-do, and too many,
alas! by sin, especially of intemperance.
have made themselves such, in look and
in garments. that they could not we'll
go into a decent gathering. a certain
humber are committed to employments
that take the whole of the Lords day.
What should be done to induce the m
to attend?
Christians by word and life should
commend Christian ordinances. The
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Sabbath. keeping, depop4ee destroying
Continued On Fifteenth Page,
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tions on politics. or art, or literature.
Nor will they be satisfied with vague,
uncertain lines of religious thought.
have right to expect, definite, clear
cut and stable principles, which will
: light the way to the final goal, and serve
as rules and stimulants of good con-
duct along life's weary road. The con-
tinuous and lOud-groWing declarations
of ministers that they have helm and
compass, and know not whittier to go or
whittier to lead, are doing much to-day
in America toward emptying churches.
JOHN IRELAND.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND.
Uncertain Ministers Are Largely
to Blame for Empty Churches.

Uncertain Ministers Are Largely
to Blame for Empty Churches.
People leave off church attendance
according as their religious convictions
decline. Where these are strong and
fervent crowds throng the temple and
bend head and knee in worship. Mere
tricious arts, the rounded periods and
EilVery voice Of the preacher, the skilled
performances OF the choir, the splendor
of ritualistic display, will have an effect
for brief period, until the novelty
wears away, ana other attractions of
like kind sing elsewhere their notes of
invitation. The one substantial, abid-
ing, all-pervading reason for church at
tendance is religion--the worship of
God, and the learning of the divine
truths binding man to his Creator. The
claims of religion resting lightly On the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07
RABBI HESS

Preach Less on DOgmatism and
More on Religion.
''Why is church attendance in our
day diminishing?" This question can
be best answered by those of the cleri-
cal fraternity, who have cause to raise
that complaint III their respective juris-
dictions. Considering the potent fact,
that our (Jewish) divine services are
held on days and hours vastly nterfered
with by the "stern lawn of self-preser-
vation," have every reason to be salts
fed with the number of regular attend
ants, and the interest they display in
matters essential to religion.
.ZTeach less on theology and dogma
tism than on religion and interesting
topics of the hour" is my guide
RABBI r. l.. HESS.
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edge of the cliff by tennis court, about
which winds the drive. To the right
the plateau fails abruptly away to
picturesque glen or gorge, through
which brook purls to the level of the
lawn, ard then leaps laughingly to the
river below. Beyond the gorge is the
shooting ground, where athletic MEM
Ders of the club practice upon clay
pigeons, while woOing an appetite for a
French dinner on the piazza. The club
house is an Irregular, rambling and
therefore picturesque building, artisti-
cally designed and beautifully finished
throughout. 1t cost about S25, 900, which
sum does not include the furnishing of
many of the rooms, which were fitted
up at Individual expense, as follows:
Mrs. w. s. Morton-Man reception room.
Mrs. +. b. Clarke--Dining room
Mrs. L. X. SelmeS-Smoking room
Mrs. Lane X. Stone-Ladies parlor.
Mrs. Furness- Ladies' dressing ROOM
There were also many private dona-
tons, including handsome pool table
by VIII +. Steele, of Minneapolis, so
that the amount named above has re-
suited iii magnificent quarters, with
water, steam and electric plants COM
plete. The dining arrangements are
managed by a chef of experience, who
is the clubs caterer, and the Kitchens
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07
GUILTY OF ABDUCTION.
Wesley Keith Convicted by a
Jury at Marshall.

OuTy stt 4At.E5lidsI.
Special to the GLOBE
MARSHALL, June 6.-The great event
this week in the district court, which is
now III session here. has been the con-
vlction of Wesley Keith for the abduc-
ton, with criminal intent. of Nora
Greensltt, girl eleven years of age.
This case was started last fall, but ow-
ing to the fact that the mother and
child disappeared, Keith was given bail
till this term of court. The complaint
was made by the mother TO members of
the Grand Army, she being the widow
of a soldier. The q. A. II. post at Mar
shall took up the case, and when mother
and child were wanted as witnesses
they were missing, but were traced to
the northern part of the state. They
were brought back to Marshall, but es-
capped, and were afterWard found in Da-
kota. An examination before justice
then resulted in Keith beng bound
over to the district court on the charge
of abduction. Keith made a hard fight
i'll the district court, but the jury last
night returned a verdict of guilty.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07

Roman four hundred had 4 penchant
for the retirement of Baie. What would
Paris have been in the palmy days of
the grand monarch without Versailles
or London at any time without its
Richmond? New York has its Tuxedo;
and so, as smooth and logical conse-
quenee, st. Paul has its Town. and
Country club.
The club was born on the battlefield
of social war. The Nushkas, that
swell organization that traces its proud
ancestry to the Ice King OF the carnival,
attired itself, once uDon time. i'm
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07
WALTER SCOTT VAIL.
Men Cannot Be Frightened and
Must Be Drawn Back.

In attempting to give an answer as to
why people do not go to church, the
most obvious reason seems to be that
they prefer to go elsewhere. Perhaps
cannot give a reason for this, because
there may be very many, most of which
are beyond my knowledge. That large
and influential class of people have
turned away from the church we know.
That the contempt for reason, SO COM
monty acknowledged among average
Christians, is largely responsible for
this, fully believe. That the theory of
a birthstone hell, presided over by
cloven-hoofed devil, created wide
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day the body will likely be remove d to
the senate chamber, and lie in state for
four or FIVE hours the interment will
subsequently, take place at Kingston,
Ont, where the premier's first wife and
his father are buried. DIR. Powell an
nounces that no further details will be
made public until tomorrow.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07
Up Goes the Missouri.

Special to the Globe.
CHAMBERLAIN, s. D., June 6.-The
Missouri river started to rise this even
ing, and has already risen more than
two feet. The water is now higher
than at any time during the past four
years and continues to rise steadily.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07
CROPS IN THE DAKoTAs.
Conditions Reported Favorable to
q Heavy Yield.

Specials to the Globe.
HURON, S. d., June G.. Thirteen
North and thirty-one South Dakota
counties send crop reports to the United
States signal Office here to-day, showing
all crops except corn to be i'll fine con-
dition, although sunshine and temper
ature have been below the average.
Many heavy rains occurred over both
states. All crops, especially late-sown,
have been very much benefited. Re-
ports indicate that they are in fine con-
dition. The growth is slow, due to cool,
cloudy weather following the rains.
Conditions during the week were ex-
ceptionally favorable to wheat. I'm
prOvement in grass is general and good
pasturage assured. Light hail storms
reported, but no special damage noted.
Vegetables, berries and fruits sustained
some injury. Cutworms are doing
some damage, but are not so active as
during the preceding week.
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Goes to the Reformatorv.

Special to the Globe.
WINoNA, June 6.-The jury in the
case of the United States VS.. w. NJ.
Carr, after being out five hours, re-
turned verdict of guilty of using the
United States mails for fraudulent pur-
poses. Judge Nelson sentenced Carr to
one year and thirty days in the reform
atory at ST. Cloud.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07
DIR. TALMAGE,s OPINION.

People Don't Go to Church Be-
cause They Cannot Stand the
Humdrum."
People do not go to church because
they cannot stand the humdrum. The
fact is that most people have so much
humdrum in their worldly calling that
they do not want to have added tbs
humdrum of religion.
We need q, az all our sermons and ex-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07

special delig h t
in seeking it's
pleasures ''far
frOm m the mad
lin z crowds"
habit of eating
with its knife
and picking its
with the tine of
a steel fork. The
aristocracy Of
Athens in the
days of Pericles
was wont to dine
out where the
"bees droned in
the groves of IL
lycSuc - ~ In q
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Helgesen VIII Move.

Speclai 10 the GloDe.
FARGO, n. D., June 6.-Gov. Burke
and Commissioner Helgesen had con-
sultation in the city today. and Hell :
gesen decided to move his Office to Bis
marck Immediately in accordance with
the governors order issued seTae time
since, disregard of which has caused
considerable comment OF late.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07
Itasca Bank Burned.
special to the Globe.

Special 70 the Globe.
La PRAIRIE, MIMI, June .6.-This
morning the Itasca County bank was set
on fire and was total loss. Mr.. Bow
man and family had narrow escape
with their lives. The insurance IS S12,-
600: loss. So. 900.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07


rather too much
supereXclusiveness
and the Town and
Country club was
the result. 1t was
Dor II something
over three years ago
in the rooms of
1.-The Benedlcts, +"
and perhaps most Of
the credit is due w.
ii. Patterson. whose
efforts were then
and since have been
untiriDr in prOmOt-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07
Honoring JEFF Davis.

TALLAHAssEE, Fla. June 6.-The
bill making the anniversary Of the birth
of Jefferson Davis legal holiday has
become a law. After the bill was passed
the Legislature adjourned siue die.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-07

WELDON could
not properly exist
without its Town
and Country club.
Therefore it has
fitted up and main
tains at great eX-
pense. and to its
own unlimited en-
'joyment, the cosy
and even sumptu-
Gus little box and
S u r rou n d i n z S
which ornament
the pretty bluff
just north or the
Marshall avenue
bridge.
There is no dis
respect in the term
employed, either
to the select CO.
terie referred to or
the larger and,
ngrhanS aOnoliu
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REV. MIR. RICE.
The Clinton Avenue Pastor BIames
1t on Foreigners.

1t on Foreigners.
| have not considered the matter suf-
ficiently TO be able to give an opinion.
l think that, considering the vast NUM-
Der of people who come to lis from the
old world, and fall away from the
churches because they are not looked
after, there is proportionately no small
er an attendance at divine service than
at any time during my experience.
The amusements. base ball, theaters.
etc, on Sunday keep away class of
people who would 90 somewhere Sun
day. If these places of amusement,
were closed they would go to church to
pass away the time. Rev. RICE.