The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-01
FROM REV. DIR. GEORGE.
SEATTLE, Nov. %, 1892

SEATTLE, Nov. %, 1892
To THE EDITOR: / notice by this mornings
paper that the Rev. Wallace Nutting says che
must abide by his statements lin relation to
trustworthy men,"
This. it appears, was said by the brother pub
licly in his sermon, twenty-four hours after he
had written thus to me on Saturday evening:
81 shall explain to the people that the count
was not late enough to do justice. although /
did not know it at the time"
Now l am not going into the census bust
ness, as certainly one minister is enough for
that work, and for myself would not think
OF sending young men on such secret mis-
sions nor make any movement in that direc-
ton without at any rate first consulting my
brother pastors, but I must and do adhere IN.
quaiifiedly to the statements made in my letter
of Saturday, and consider my own sources of
information quite as "trustworthy" as Brother
Nutting's.
The seating and standing capacities of our
two churches can speak for themselves, and
any one who knows them can afford to smile at
the claims made by its pastor for Plymouth
IT, as appears, il be now claimed that there was
a larger proportion Of men in Plymouth that
evening can only say that calculated, on
Brother Nutting's own basis, that the men repre-
sented one-third Of the congregation, and in his
first sermon he did not even intimate that he
had larger proportion of men than his breth-
rem. For my part. l think that women are of
equal importance with men, ana are certainly
more Influential in the formation OF future
society, and ii ladies attend our churches they
are not only welcome, but we are proud of their
presence.
After all what does 1t amount tor would
rather have the record of three or four souls
converted in the Epworth League meeting, and
thus OBTAINING them too late to be included IN
the count, as was the case on the evening IN
question, than to have the largest congregation
i'll the city. ] am of opinion that the proper
census of a minister's work Will Be taken not
on EARTH but in heaven. Not the largeness OF
the congregation. but the number OF souls saved
viii cause the faithful minister to "shine as
star for ever and ever" In this respect 1t may
be that not the largest central churches in Seat
tie, but some of those out of town or in the
humber mission halls will wave the palm OF
victory.
II our brother merely desired to compare the
church and saloon attendance why did he not
give the numbers in gross? Then the compari-
son between his own and other churches would
not have been invited and his census would not
have been open to an uutavorable construction.
Again, why ignore the suburban churches?
Brother Nutting says that he considers the
numbers going there would about balance those
in the other uncounted saloons. Does he not
know that nearly all the saloons are stu
ated within the districts where his six
churches were counted, and that but very few
outside that limit? Count those outside
churches, do our brethren there some justice,
and it will be found that the proportion OF
saloon attendance Is marvelously minimiZed
By yesterdays Posi- l notice
that church services were announced in fifteen