The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-08-30
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UOltdf organ. DUcSt duy sane SMdu, SAINT
or sinner, believe for a moment that
either Of these pictures-the n on the
river, or the other on Capitol Hill-are
the products of Christianity? II the
people in the bottoms were not so poor.
the people on the hill would not be SO
rich. If the people on the hill were not
so rich, the people on the bottoms
would not be so poor. Yet we have d.
DIS. and schools Of theology that are.
teaching that both these conditions are
the results of Christianity.
"A large portion Of the who sit
in the pews Of our great civ fhes, and,
hang on the words Of our I hops and
popular preachers, are the I who are
corrupting our politics, OPP ssing the
poor, debauching womanho ARE the
men who do not listen to great preach
ers but pay them high salaries, and
build the fine churches. Our bishops
and great preachers are living in sucd
style Of opulence and a%fluence, and
moving in circles of such magnificent
splendor, that the poor cannot pay the
bllls, and cannot, therefore, hope for
their sympathy. The ministry should
i've such a plain, simple life as to be
able to breathe the air of full freedom
q perfect independence, which would
enable them as ambassadors Of God to
De faithful and true to all classes of
men.
Our great ministers in this state
With Chancellor Mcdowell, last
1all and also last April, Joined
hands with the corrupt politicians,
gamblers. saloon men and fallen wom-
en- OF Market street to REDEEM the
state and city. They succeeded, and
as one of the results OF the sredeeming,'
Denver was new so nearly turned
e to the criminal elements, and
gambling and prostitution were never
SO f%ourishing as now. A fine lot of
redeemers! Preachers, chanceliors,
university professors, saloon men and
gamblers and scarlet women. A fine
lot OF 'redeemers'-such a lot as re-
deemed 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.
"Th fact is that bishops and leading
ministers have gone away from the
true work of Watchmen and shepherds.
1t is to-day as DR.. Hamilton said in an
address before the Colorado confer
ence at Boulder last summer that a
'hlreling ministry perpetuated slav-
cry
See what the bishops, editors, elders
n old preachers now on deck have
bequeathed to us. They have left to
us a desecrated Sabbath, about three
of drunkards, an annual death
harvest for predition of about one hun
dred and fifty thousand drunkards,
two hundred and fifty thousand sa-
looms, patriotism almost dead, expiring,
four million tramps, the rich are grow
ing richer, and the poor growing poor
er;; the rich in power, controlling the
navy, army and government; the gen
eral government the most corrupt the
world ever saw; two saloons running
full blast in the capitol of the worlds
republic. These are only a few of the
conditions that a compliant, complac-
ent, obsequious time-serving and man
pleasing ministry have left to this g
for solution. And amid all this de-
generacy and moral disintegration,
these old brothers Of ours are not turn
mo nvor a .horI IN eov,o ..eo--o
age. They are so busy with the saloon
men, gamblers and scarlet women re-
deeming' the state, that Of course they
have no time CO and less disposition
to spend their time on triles. It would
never do to neglect such weighty mat
as 'redeeming' the state and city, if
the church and Sabbath, and manhood
and justice and right go to perdition.
Such a ministry as this never blazed
out new highways for a progressive and
marching humanity. A ministry that
will protect rich rogues in the church
and support corruption in office, can al
be depended on with the scarlet
as 'redeemers.'
I'VE have not a bishop nor great
preacher to-day that is laundering
sinners and corruptions that
are overturning our homes, the
church and nation itself. Our great !
preachers to-day are preaching for big
salaries, fine mansions and sumptrps
living; and they are getting them.
City Ownership.
A writer in The Century 1for June
says that the average Enslisb 9! psAl