The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-14
MODERN MINISTER'S.
Bah On the WeaTeTS Of BTOadClOth
and Snowy CTaTatS.

vet and Blue IaW-Sarson 6oWAer.
uEntire Bath Clergymen-Pravers as
Clever Rhetoric-Are There More
Christians Out Of Than in the Pull
pitP-The way Down South" Meth
odist Preacher.
New York. Jan. 13.-We had been keep
ing quite for some time-Hilarv and ].
Hilary is my cousin and my friend; the
combination you seldom find in a woman
was slipping my tea and trying TO guess
out the shape of the tea leaves Hilary was
taking a gulp of hers every two or three
minutes. in a sort of savage way, and be-
tween times looking at the newspaper.
At last she threw the paper aside, put
down hercup, stood up, looked at me with
great frmness. and said very emphatl-
cally, by their works We shall know
them"
1t was only natural for me to ask,
"Who4"
And she answered, ''The preachers OF
to-day" Then she began 70 talk.
Said she. Il don't wonder men lose all
belief when they realize what manner OF
man attempts to teach faith. am not
surprised that they doubt the existence
of the Gentle Man of Gallilee when those
who are supposed to tell of him to man
kind lack gentleness 1t is not wonder
10 me that men have no falth, no Goa,
and are contemptuous of many things, and
can quite understand how they can laugh
and saw with truth, How these Christians
fight The Reverend MIR. Prejudice gets
up in the pulpit, and instead OF preach
ing Christ crucihed, he delivers
personal sermon attacking the Rev
npd n
wherein he Is right and his brother in the
Lord is wrong Then Father Candlemas,
instead of telling his congregation how to
love one another and do their duties as
commanded by the household, the state
and the church, discusses the single tax
theory, and Just to pass the time, Villifies
the men Of his own faith who are work
ing quietly and well. After this, the
Rev Mrs Timothy, who has forgotten
that it is especially said that women
should keep silence in the church, arises
in her might and uses the pulpit to pro-
mulgate suffrage.
VARIOUS GRADES OF CLERGTMEN.
"Some day, Rabbi Greatheart, Father
Kindliness, sand the Reverend Mr.sAth-
letic, all oig-hearted men, agree TO unite
to feed the poor and clothe those who are
cold they send out invitations to the diff
ferent preachers, asking them to unite
with them, and the Reverend Mr., Blue
Law regrets, but he cannot work, even IN
charity, with people who do not accept
that beautiful rule which damns you,
whether you are good or whether you
are bad. Then the Reverend Mr.. Howler
is sorry, but he feels that he can not
work in unison with people who do not
believe that the kingdom of heaven is
gained by yelling and screeching and
leading silly women to become hysterical
and overweight. And the Reverend
DR.. Swimmer must refuse to meet people
who were merely sprinkled and not given
an entire bath, and so it goes on; and yet,
they all claim to be Christians.
What does it meant What are we to
believer You and start out in life, &C
cepting the lovely story of the Saviour
who came into the world that sinners
might be forgiven we say our prayers,
believing they will be answered; we go
to that church we like the best, and are
happy. Some day preacher gets up and,
instead of clarifying love and kindness
and charity, he talks doctrine, and we
come out wondering what it all means.
And next Sunday we get more Of 1t, and
then more and more and more. And the
newspapers speak Of the preacher as q
great student, and in time we are one of
two things-we have either wearied out
our brains on the doctrinal questions, un-
til we don't believe anything, or, else we
are so tired out that we stay away from
church and try to live as good lives as
we can.
PULPIT SIMPLICITY WANTED.
"What the preachers want to learn is
simplicity. What prayer do you remem-
Der bestl That one which you learned
when you were little child, or that great
long one which was elocuted last Sunday,
and in which the preacher seemed to be
very condescending indeed to God AL
rniQbfu7 Tho Nhar of To &c
ting to be very much like the actor; he
has, at least, all the actors conceit and
a great deal of his ignorance, and the
greatest evidence of this is that he doesn't
understand human nature. He aims to
make his church rich and fashionable,
and doctors aud lawyers and shopkeep-
ers Join in view of making money from
it; it becomes good speculation togo
where millionaire worships and to meet
Sunday after Sunday, for then you can
sell him your prescriptions, your legal
lore or your carpets. OF course, | don't
mean there are no good preachers, but
they are the ones you don't hear
81 pick up the papers, and read that
the Rev. Mr.. Velvet preached a most elo-
quent sermon, to which Mrs. Billion,
dressed in purple satin. listened with
great interest, and put bill so closely
folded that no one could see its denomina-
tion, on the collection plate. And l pick
up the new Testament, and In the records
of the Christian church l see no account
of anybody who would correspond TO the
Rev. Clarence Velvet and see no wo-
men mentioned except those who were
workers in the church"
stopped her just here and said, but,
we know, you and !, men who are work.
ing, almost starving, for what they be-
lieve TO be right. We know men who
have given up social position, fortunes,
everything that makes life beautiful, to
go and work among those who are suf-
fering. Not to go among the savages in
Africa, but to find the savages in this
great city, and to teach them something
of the
BEAUTY, AND THE DUTY OF LIFE.
Some of these men have no doctrine, ex-
cept to love their neighbors some of
these men belong to the oldest church in
the world, the Jewish; some of these
men belong to that church which claims
TO be its successor, the Catholic, and
many of them belong to- don't know
the names, but we will lump them. and
call it Gods church, for that is always
Gods church which teaches people to be
better, mora patient and more forgiv.
ing