The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
A RED HOT ROAST.
A METHODIST MINIrTER GOE&
FOR HIS BRE' Rem. :

A METHODIST MINrTER GOEV
FOR HIS BRE' sEN. T
A Terrible ARA nent of the
Denver Christ Who Re-
deemed Il, iate From
.s"'
That famc Methodist preacher,
Rev. F. F. c,.ssmore, recently de-
livered sermon in Denver, Colorado,
which took the hide off the Philis-
tines who call themselves christians.
We quote an extra from Gov. Waite's
paper. 'Our Nations Crisis"
When Jesus said, Feed my lambs
feed my sheep" he meant that his
shepherds should take particular care
in looking after the interests of hui
manity: as the shepherds care for
their sheep. Not looking after the
rich and strong and favored ones, and
neglecting the poor, and weak, and
sick, and dying. Not giving all their
attention to Capitol Hill. and letting
the people on the river go to perdi-
tion. 1t is not expected that shep-
herd will aid wild beasts to destroy
their flocks, but our spiritual shep-
herds are aiding the saloon men, gam
blers, corrupt Republicans and prosti-
tutes to destroy their flocks. When
the history of the ministry of today is
written, it will read strangely, and
sound more like the doings of pagan
priests than of the Methodist minis
try. There is nothing in the world so
powerful and effective as conse
Grated, sanctified, spiritual, live and
courageous pulpit. On the other
hand, there is nothing so pale, so cum
bersome, so weak, SO lifeless, SO con-
temptible, SO useless and so cowardly,
as a man-serving, time-serving, mon
ey-seeking ministry. A ministry that
is so far lost to the spirit of the Mas
ter that it can preach to please the
rich and the corrupt who are violating
every law of God and desecrating
every sacred right of man, is in con-
dition that should arouse a sleeping
church and slumbering age. Just as
the preachers stood for divine right of
kings in the days of Cromwell, and for
the king and the nobility in the days
| preceding the French revolution, and
upheld the Shareholder in the anti
slavery struggle; SO our bishops, eld-
ers, editors, college professors and the
| pastors OF our great churches are
stan ding by the rich and supporting
them in outraging the poor. They
have been and are standing by the
REPUBLICAN PARTY
a party that has become the most cor
| rupt organization in this country
This party demon etized silver and
has filled the nation with poverty and
| tramps. 1t is now the champion of
the saloon, upholding gamblers, pros
titution, corporations, trusts and
| monopolies, and still the preachers
| are supporting it. This party has
| brought millions of prosperous people
to poverty and charity, and has brOk-
en- up happy homes, and still the
preachers support it. This party has
brought this nation to the brink of
| financial and moral ruin, and still our
| bishops and great preachers support
it. For men to pretend to preach
Christ and then go to the ballot box
| and support the worst men, and the
most develish and internal sins and
crimes of this age, Is about the bald
est and loudest hypocrisy that has
been made open to the world for ages
How much more staunch supporters
of sin can our bishops become than to
favor the licensing Of saloonss, and
support party that now favors licen
sing the prostitution of wOmanhoOd?
This is worshipping at the shrine of
the rich and the vile with VEN
geance. l am no longer surprised at
| the inefficiency of the minis try; the
| corruption in politics; the deadness of
the church; the development of
trusts; the growth of monopolies; the
wealth of the few; the poverty of the
many; the brutality of crime; the
| desecration Of the Sabbath; the in
crease of infidelity; the rapid growth
Of immortality; and the general drift
Chris tianity.
lam no longer surprised at the con-
| dition Of the church, the country and
| the age, when / think that our bish-
| ops and great preachers, with few ex-
ceptions, have joined with corrupt
| politicians, gamblers saloon men, Sab
| bath breakers, prostitutes. money
| changers and the oppreSsOrs of the
poor and weak. Instead Of driving
the money-changers from the temple,
they are invited in and made well
come. Dare anyone think for mo-
ment that such preachers are preach
| ing Christ, living his spirit, and rep
resenting his doctrines to the world?
| Christ's doctrines, principles and
spirit would change all these things
and would bring about an era Of we'll
| being to mankind. The trouble with
our age is that Christ Is not being
preached in our great churches by our
great preachers. | mean just what [
| say: Christ is not being preached in
| one Of the great Methodist churches
| from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
THE DENVER MINISTRY.
If DR.. Mcintyre and Bishop Warren
are preaching Christ, how is it that
the longer they preach. and the more
| fine churches they build, there is the
| more immortality, drunkenness, crime
| and poverty?
l stood on the Sixteenth street via
duct last winter and saw poor women
and children picking small pieces of
| coal to keep them from freezing.
| They had to be careful that the feet
of the corporation horses did not
crush them. Horses, I suppose, that
belong to some of the members of the
big uptown churches, mile or two
away, with their highs alaried pastors
and their wealthy congregations. l
thought of the fine sermons that
would be preached for the entertain
ment Of the rich, but that nothing
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