Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-07-18

oELEs. PORTLAND.
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Christ in the pulpit and flirting about
with gamblers and scarlet women at
the ballot box.
A REAL ESTATE AND A HIRELTNG
MINISTRY.
Just now the hireling ministry is
'perpetuating the crimes and wrongs
ana expressions and iujustices and
corruptions that are now undermining
society. Our bishops and editors and
secretaries and the pastors of our large
churches are pandering to the rich and
corrupt elements for the sake of large
salaries, and are living in splendor and
affluence, riding in Pullman palace
cars, travelling to the utmost parts Of
the earth, while millions of women and
children are in distress and hundreds
are starving. Is such an effeminate
and luxury-lOving ministry as this
likely to raise its voice for Gods glory
and mans good? Has world-pander-
ing and Wealth-gathering ministry
ever done anything for the poor and
needy in any age of the world or under
any religious leader, whether Christ,
MahOmet, or CONTIGUOUS? Have real
estate specializing ministers ever done
anything for humanity
Real-estate preachers draw salary
from the people; but while the people
support them they are doing business
for themselves, letting the sheep drift
as best they can and 60 to perdition il
they must
Real estate specializing preachers,
ministers breaking their necks to get a
line house in Denver and University
Park, and bishops living in $4,000
mansions, make odd redeemers. They
always have and always will, and the
saloon men, gamblers and scarlet
women can always count on them, and
they can always be found at the old
stand of redemption when any redeem
ing IS needed to be done. Our bishops
and great preachers are so busy in the
''redeeming" business these times that
they do not know that the sabbath is
being desecrated, the poor impOv-
erished. the state and church democrat
lied. They do not hear the rambling
OF discomfort, neither do they feel the
tremOrs Of the ground swell of the COM
ing era.
BISHOP WARREN.
Bishop Warren said in one of his ad
dresses: Zone of the burning ques
tiOns of the twentieth century will be,
What shall we do with our million
aires?" Bishop, it is not only ques-
tion Of the twentieth century, but a
gu stion of the nineteenth century as
we'll; and one thing to do with our
millionaires is, for our bishops and
leading preachers to stop worshiping
at the shrine of the rich, and, in the
place of flattering sermons that are be-
ing preached to-day, preach to the rich
as John Wesley did-the danger of
riches. The bishop further says:
Wealth and resultant luxury ruined
Rome; shall we also perish?" Yes,
bishop, unless our bishops and great
preachers come back to GOi's Word
and preach faithfully against the sins
of the age, and stop paDdering to the
rich and corrupt classes, we too shall
perish.
The bishop also says: "Let us spring
out of our aOwery beds Of ease, and out
of or absorption of getting riches and
position, and go down into Gethsemane,
to the bloody sweat with the struggle
of death; not for ourselves, but for men
and women who are dying there with
out touch of loving hand or word of
loving heart" Here is a grand thought
and if the bishop will get Off that
"AOwery bed of ease" on which he re-
Clines, and out of that $4,000 mansion,
and go to the world with those great
thoughts in practice, as well as in prac-
tice, as well as in theory, the bishop
can do grand work for God and hui
manity. But truth, right and justice,
to say nothing of the Christian spirit,
compel me to say that the bishop can
not have influence with pen. as an
of Christ. reclining on
: .1owery beds of ease,n and in a fine
when 80 many of Gods chill
dren are cold, hungry and naked.
Whenever our preachers and bishops
cease to be absorbed in clarifying God
and elevatlng men, and relieving the
the truth will prevail, and
one generation of such preachers will
take the world for Christ. The bishop
speaks about the "blOOdy sweat" and
"stluggle of death" in ''Gethsemane.
But the doing justice and right will
settle these wrongs. Talking about
doing courageous and daring things
for the poor. and at the same time aid
ing in depressing them, may be very
fine in oratiOn, but it does not bring
relief.
And lastly, the bishop says: "In
what battles are we fighting gsatan
now? Tie is embodied IN the liquor
traffic." Is not one OF the most mex
plicabe things that the bishop will adj
NIT that satan is embodied in the
liquor traffic" and at the same time
lend his influence to Philip Zang, sa-
loon men, gamblers. the republican
party, and the scarlet women of Mar
ket street to embody satan little
more sOlldly in the "liquor traffic" and
to redeem" Colorado and the city OF
Denyer2
1t is Just such sayings as this on the
one hand, and just such doings as these
on the other, that has shorn the min
istry of the great influence it might
have had on the world; saying these
pretty, euphohious and eloquent things