The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-15

The Rev. Wallace Nutting in his ser.
mon OF last Sunday, commenting upon GER
tain editorial utterances of the PosT-IN-
TELLIGESCER. said:
Whenever ministers touch upon morals other
wise than in general way the cry is a.sed that
they are going without the province of Their
calling. When an individual sin Is denounced
by clergyms who is simply using the right OF
citizen. the same hue are cry is raised When
/ read those editorials, the Old saw that IL is a
poor rule that will not work both ways forced
Itself upon mo- II ministers are TO let politics
alone, editors should follow the same rule aud
let theology alone. This is fsllacious reason
Ing. So lar ~ | am concerned. there is no OBJ
lection to the discussion of theological points
by secular papers: neither ought q minister, by
virtue OF his profession, to be barred out OF
every right as q citizen, as he belongs to no
caste.
Mr.. Nutting here erects a man Of straw
ont of which he beats the dust for his own
satisfaction and the possible editication Of
his audience. The PosT-lHTELIIGENCER
has never directly or indirectly criticised
the denunciation Of ian individual sin"
by clergyman. 1t did criticise the prsc-
teal wisdom of DR.. Parkhurst as a moral
reformer, not because he preached against
sin in general or in particular, but because
he confessed his future - preach men up
to Righteousness by turning amateur de-
tective. On this point the PosT-lNGKLLI-
GINGER said:
II the pulpit Of modern times cannot make
men better a. John Wesley made men better.
then the pulpit NAV Re sure Il will not achieve
any success by faiGing saloons and disorderly
houses The unregeuerase man must bs rgided
and his allegiance captured: the failure of the
pupil, 10 do this cannot be charged to the saloon
or the dgsorGeIly house. but the So Don ana the
disorder!y house exist and multiply because the
modern pulpit fails where Wesley succeeded.
churches cannot be nlled by fcrcjng an unre-
generate sinner 20 say: II guess I'll 20 TO
church because a! the other places are shut
up" The reople who througed TO hear Wesley
did not so because the saloons and disosderly
houses were not open. but Wesley's preaching
o.osed their doors by converting their custom
ers aud victims 70 oet;eF ways. Suppose every
puipi, had il 1t a mas of the implicitly, the
SINCERITY, tie selt-efacomeut o. AoOiyf What
theuf
That is the vital point. Wesley went
for" the unregenerate hearts of the men
Who support ale houses and gin mills and
bagnlos, because he knew that the real
cause for the existence OF prostitution and
iu;empera1ce lies not SO much ia the
houses OF ili-repute and the dramshop as
outside Of them--in the unregenerste
hear, OF man. For more than fifty years
Wesley strove 20 preach men up 10 right
eousness, ana when he had built UP the
Methodist church ont OF the drunken.
llcentious masses Of the common people Of
England he had reduced the ranks O. vo-
taries of vice by the most effective. if not
the only effective method. Police and laws
can keep the peace and order of society
under decent outward control, but making
men ehasse or temperate except through