Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-15
MINISTER'S AS MEN.
A Presbyterian Clergyman Says They
Are Too Efeminate.
THEY ACCEPT TOO MANY FAVORS.
Promptly Called Down by a Brother Who
Holds other Views
PITTsBURG PREsBYTERY MEETING

Before the meeting of the Pittsburg Pres
bytery yesterday morning the Presbyterian
preachers held their regular weekly meet
ing. Every seat in the First Presbyterian
Church chapel was occupied. 1t was per.
haps the most stirring and interesting
meeting that the preachers have ever held.
Rev. David j. Kennedy, of Allegheny,
was on the programme for an address on
''Manliness in the Minister" DR.. Ken
nedy opposed the overture of the General
Assembly, which was passed down to
the Presbyterers, relative to permit
ting deaconesses to be admitted to the
work of the church. In so doing he did
not over-please the women of the congre-
cation, and his action has been severely
criticised by them. In his address yester-
day DR.. Kennedy again aroused quite dis
cussion by claiming that the tendency Of
the modern minister 10 to become efem-
mate. He held that they were in constant
danger of becoming womanly in their man.
ners and tastes because of their necessarily
large dealings with the women of their con-
gregation. He dwelt at length upon this
subject, claiming that the minister did not
get the proper respect shown him on &C.
count OF this.
DR.. kennedy then attacked the custom
that is in vogue in business of giving dis
counts to ministers. He claimed 1t belittled
the minister; made him a subject for the
charity storekeeper. who aiterward talked
of the matter in sighting way. He said
m mister should be independent and live q s
best he could on the salary given him, no
ma tier how small, without general favors.
Dr. kennedy excepted the railroads in this
regard. He said the great fault with min
is ters was that they cringed to the
re conciled to them rather than Jeses Christ.
He said the minister should preach the
whole truth, boldly, manfully, whether men
like it or not, and that it was more i'm
porta MT to be a brave preacher of the truth
than to be n popular preacher.
DR.. Gibson said he attended 81 assem- blies,
and had seen probably more of ministers
tn an most people, and he differed somewhat
fr ON the previous speaker. The result OF
his observation was that ministers are
generally regarded as leaders in their
several communities, that they were the
peers of any as citizens, as men, in influence,
whose support was often absolutely neces-
sary to forward any important movement.
Many men prominent in other walks of
life desired their sons to enter the minis try,
because in addition to serving the Mas ter,
they entered the door for the greatest gen..
eral usefulness and widest possible inhu--
ence, on the highest possible plane. DIR.
q ilson was greeted with great applause
throughout his talk, and at the conclusion
was surrounded by his friends who offered
IuSlT
Dr. Chalfaut advocated manly, fearless
preaching of the doctrines of the W ord of
God. He said he did not consider he was an
object of charity when a merchant reduced
his bill, but he knew that the man did it
purely as matter of business, the same as
any other discount is given. The shop
kee pers, he said, consider the preachers
the ir best customers. One of the most
pro minent tailors in town once told him he
had never lost a cent by trusting a minister.
At the close of the ministers IN ee ting the
IraS n nf c1Nr1rr
Cha rles A. Clark, for four years the pastor
o5 the McCandless Avenue Presbyterian
Ch urch, which he established d and which has
greatly grown under his ministry, was al
lowed to resign his charge. He accepts a
call to "0id Rehoboth," i" in the Presbytery of
Redstone on q salary of 81 200, its equivalent
This church is nearly l25 years old. An in