The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-04-07
SECULAR AND SACRED.
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THE PULPIT IN POLITICS
Exve So, wa.ehr.eg uron thy walls o j.
Trszzf1.a. which shall nes eF hold t1e4r pax
day nor uiz4t---IssklAh XII &
Shall the clergy interfere with pol
tics2 If by clergy we mean peculia
class differentiated from the rest q mar
+ kind, with a peculiar aim and g0verne
by peculiar principles, whose aim an
principles are in one sense antagonist
10 the rest Of mankind, then / say n
I Such class should interfere with n0td
/ ing. They have no right 10 exist. Tt
result IF such class in society il evil
/ The foundation OF the modern preacher
power is manhood Jesus said, Il hay
chosen and ordained you and sent yo1
I forth" He did not choose title. Il
/ did not choose a ceremony. He did no
/ choose a machine or a tradition. II
/ chose manhood as the vehicle Of diyin
power. | claim nothing because | be
/ long TO privileged class. | deny that
/ belong to privileged class. / am ablt
/ to teach, and have power IN teaching
/ simply as my manhood is worthy. Thi
| Christian minister should be first man
The end of his labor should be the saliva
ton Of man in his entire relations
Should the preacher then teach politics?
/ maintain that II is not only his DIT,
TO teach politics, but that no man can i'll
q Christian pulpit and do his duty trith
out teaching politics.
EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.
First-Because no pulpit i'll these times
can maintain vital relations with tho
whole man that ignores the world Of
politics. DR.. Strong has well said in
one Of his addresses at the Evangelical
Alliance that the great question that
confronts modern Christianity is no:
primarily one as to the authenticity OF
authorship of certain sacred books, but
it is whether Christianity has within il
vital power; whether it can save man as
he is today; society today; commerce
and business today. The preacher that
does not touch the world vitality has no
power to move the world.
| used to look on preacher with Ii
sort Of curious contempt. / did not
class my father in this thought of a
L
the intimate relations of home as the
man, meeting him in all sorts Of CON
ditions, and having all sorts Of personal
interviews and encounters with him in
the process of life, did not include him
in this concept. But once had an idea
that clergyman was a sort of gexless
monstrosity, not quite man, not q
woman. l have encountered this idea
frequently in the world of today. There
are great many people who thus re-
gard preachers, and the man who holds
the preacher in such esteem is q man
whose life cannot be touched by the
preachers words. People do not have
respect for a power that does not lay
hold of life.
BILL AT ALBANY.
Those medical students with their
knives began to slash a dead BODY.
They joked about the corpse, treated it
with the utmost contempt, but when
one of them inserted his knife the CORPSE
sat up and looked around, and those
young men got up and moved out of
that building. They got out in hurry.
Their respect for that man rose at least
100 dogs. in sixty seconds. The secret
OF this increase Of respect was simply
the manifestation of life.
No preacher can move the modern
world who does not lay firm grasp upon
the life of that modern world. All re-
llgious problems are today social prob
lens, and all social questions are politi-
cal questions. Every scheme of philan-
thrOpy, every dream Of mailman. every
theory of nihilist, becomes at last a uues-
ton Of politics. The villain who sits
DOWN In the secret chamber of his own
iarkened heart and concocts a plan of
enlargement of his life of vice will have
bill introduced at Albany, if you do
lot watch him, to legalize his methods.
'olltlcal questions are now inseparably
woven anG interviewer with questions
IT religion and of society. You can no
more separate them than you can tear
'ut the heart of the civilization of the
CENTURY.
SPIRITUALISTlC MEDIUM.
Second-The preacher must teach noli-
les, because his work is the application
+ truth to the sum total of human rela- |
ions. The preacher cannot survey tho |
Citations immediate between God and
nan. can reach mans real relations |
nth God only by survey Of his rela-
ions with man. When / want to nm
erstand if my people are in the WAYS Of
righteousness, if they are in harmony
'lth GOD, do not seek a spiritualistic
ledlum and ask for a message from this
ol11t world about certain individuals. I
IMPLY go down into everyday life and
nd out how these people are living.
hat are their relations at home fo
le1r neighbors, in their business? As
lan's relations to his fellow man are
holly SO are his relations with Coo.
he sum total Of human relations there
re Is the field of the divine survey on
le part Of him who carries his con1nass
The name OF the Lord. Here we find
ie test of character. Here we find the
crets Of the heart of man. The Cos
Il, therefore, must be taught It 1nus+ ,
applied. 1t must be rubbed in. Salt ]
1T save, must be thus rubbed in. The ,
ct Is Its saving quality is entirely de-
ndent upon this closeness of appIica-
IN.
PLEA FOR HIGHER MATHEMATICS
Ii men say you must preach the sim -;
Gospel, l agree with them. A man =
ust learn the multiplication table be- :
re he can make progress in the world }
mathematics. He would be a great =
d to stop when he learned the multi.
cation table. He has only then mas =,
ed the first principles. He has only r
tten his standard of measurement
d all the work has got to be done :,
vice two is four. Exactly. That is Z
'rlous truth. 1t will not do to ston I
ere. Twice two is four. You owe =
nr neighbor four dollars; pay it. This 7
applied mathematics. This is vital Il
Instantly. The trouble with men is "
1t they simply desire to hear an ali g
act theory proclaimed which applies
another man, while they invent means Y
escaping its application to their own W
son. The man that shoots at nobody "
nobody. If 1 fire in the air ever h
aday shall certainly have no results m
Is my duty to shoot straight at tba
q and women who oro