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

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the age when l think that our bishops
and great preachers, with few excep-
tions, have joined with corrupt politi-
clans, gamblers, saloon men, Sabbath
breakers, prostitutes, money changers
and the Oppressors of the poor and
weak. Instead Of driving the money
changers from the temple, they are in
vited in and made welcome Dare
anyone think for moment that such
preachers are preaching Christ, living
His spirit representing His doctrines
to the world? Cbrist's doctrines, prin-
ciples and spirit would change all Lhses
things, and would bring about an era
of well-being to mankind. The trouble
with our age is that Christ is not be-
ing preached in our great churches by
our great preachers. | mean just what
l say. Christ is not being preached in
one of the great Methodist churches,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
THE DENVER MINISTRY.
If Doctor Mcintyre and Bishop War
rem were preaching Christ, how is it
that the longer they preach and the
more fine churches they build there are
more immortality, drunkenness, crime
and poverty?
pstoOd on the Sixteenth street via.
duct last winter, saw pOJr women and
children picking small pieces of coal
to keep them from freezing. They had
to be careful that the feet of the cor
pnration horses did not crush them
horses, suppose that belong to some
of the members of the uptown churches
a mile or two away, with their high
salaried pastors and their wealthy
congregations. l thought of the hne
sermons that would be preached for
the entertainment of the rich, but that
nothing would be said about the in
justice and wrong heaped upon the
poor. The idea of a Methodist EpscO-
pal church aiding in the building up
an arlstocracy on Capitol hill while
she fosters crime and poverty and pau
perism below the union depot! This is
placing the church in a relation to hui
manitY that Wesley and Asbury never
thought would occnr.
THE SERVERS AND NOT TRUE CHRIS
TIANS.
Great churches in whose pulpits
stand men sending forth peals of i'm
FASHIONED oratory for the pleasure of
tue few rich and favored, and never a
word for the thousands of poor, hun
CRY ard cold 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 heav-
en- is from hell. Some women and
children picking up coal in the great,
rich city of Denver to keep from freez-
ing, while other women and children
are wor5hiping (2) God in a $250,OO0
Methodist church only a few blocks
away. with the added luxury of soul
enraYishing music from a 100000 or
gan. Does any sane man, saint or sim
ner, believe for moment that either
Of these pictures-the one on the river,
or the other on Capitol hill are the pro-
ducts of Christianity If the people
in the bottoms were not so poor, the
people on the hill would not be 30 rich.
Yet we have d. Dis. and schools of
theology that are teaching that both
are the results of Christianity. Car
we hope to change these conditions
while Bishop Warren and the other
chief watchmen and shepherds are liv-
ing in fine mansions i'll Denver and
Park; are clothed in purple
and fine linen, and fare sumptuously
every day.
POLITICIANS.
A large portion of the men who sit in
The pew of our great churches and
hang on the words of our bishops and
popular preachers are the men who
are corrupting our politics, expressing
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 preachers ara living in
such style of Opulence and atiluence,
and moving in circles OF such magni
Licent splendOr, that the poor cannot
pay the bills, and cannot therefore
hope for their sympathy. The minis
try should live such plain, simple life
as to be able to breath the air of full
freedom and perfect independence,
which would enable them, as ambas-
sailors of God. to be faithful and true
to all classes of men. Worldliness and
political corruption have come into the
Methodist church like flood, aud have
caused them to preach the teachings
Of Christ down to the level of a cor
rupt and eifeminate age and to league
themselves with the republican party
and the immoral criminal classes OF
society. Our great ministers in this
state, with Chancellor Mcdowell. last
fall and also last April, joined hands
with the corrupt republican party. poll
ticians, gamblers, saloon men and tall
len women of Market street to IRE
DEEM the state and city. They sue
ceeded, and as one of the results Of the
'redeeming," Denver was never so
nearly turned over to the criminal ele-
ments, and gambling and prostitution
were never so fOurishing as now. A
line lot of ''redeemers ~ Preachers,
university professors, sa.
loon men and gamblers, and scarlet
women. A fine lot of ''redeemersn-
such lot as redeemed Babylon. Tyre
and Rome just before these great
powers fell. A fine set of reforming
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