The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
OILS. MINI. WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1898.
church in relation to humanity that
Wesley and Asbury never thoucht
would occur.


TIME-sERvERs AND NOT TRUE CHRIS
& TIANs.
Great churches in whose pulpits
stand men sending forth peals of i'm
paSSiOned OratOry for the pleasure OF
few rich and favored. and never
word for the thousands of poor hun
CRY and cold of humanity, who have
been brought to this distress by the
very men WHO are sitting enraptured
by such eloquence, is about as far
from being the true spirit Of Christ as
heaven is from he'll. Some women
and children picking up coal in the
rich city OF Denver to keen from
freezing, while other women and
children in the same city are Worship
ping God in two hundred and fifty
thousand dollar Methodist church on
ly a few blocks away, with the added
luxury OF soul-enravishing music from
thirty-thousand dollar organ. Does
any sane man, saint or sinner. believe
for moment that either of these pic
tures--the one on the river, or the
other on Capitol Hill-are the pro-
ducts OF true Christianity. If the
people In the bottoms were not so poor,
the people on the tlill would not be SO
rich. II the people on the hill were
not SO rich, the people in the bottoms
would not be so poor. Yet we have
d. d and schools of theology that
are teaching that both these condi.
tions are the results of Christianity.
Can we hope to change these condi-
tions while Bishop Warren and the
other Chief Watchmen and shepherds
are living in fine mansions in Denver
and University Park; are clothed in
purple and fine linen, and are faring
sumptuously every day?
POLITICIANS.
A large portion Of the men who sit
in the pews of our great churches, and
hang on the words OF our bishops and
popular preachers. are the men who
are corrupting our politics, depressing
the poor, debauching womanhOod-are
| the men who not only listen to great
| preachers but pay them high salaries,
and build the fine churches. Our
| bishops and great preachers are living
in such style OF opulence and afflu-
ence, and moving in circles of such
magnificent splendor, that the poor
cannot pay the bills, and cannot,
therefore, hope for their sympathy.
The ministry should live such plain.
simple life as to be able to breathe
the air of full freedom and perfect in
depence, which would enable them, as
ambassadors of GOO, to be faithful and
true to all classes of men. Wordliness
and political corruption have come in
to the Methodist church like a flood,
and have affected our chief ministers
to such an extent as to have caused
them to preach the teachings of
Christ down to the level of a corrupt
and effeminate age, and to league
themselves with the Republican par
ty and the immoral and criminal
classes of society Our greet minis
ters in this state. Jl Cha ncsiior Nc
! Dowell, last fall anl also last April,
| joined hands with the corrupt Repub-
lican politicians, gam blers, saloon men
| and fallen women of Market street to
redeem" the state and city. They
succeeded and as one Of the results OF
the ,"redeeming," Denver was never
so nearly turned over to the criminal
elements, and gambling and prostitu-
tion were never SO flourishing as now.
A fine lot of "redeemers!" Preach
ers, chancellors, university professors,
saloon men and gamblers and scarlet
women. A fine Tot of "redeemers''-
such lot as redeemed Babylon, Tyre
and Rome, just before those great
| powers fell. A fine set of reforming
| preachers, preaching a little about
Christ in the pulpit and flirting with
gamblers and scarlet women at the
ballot box.