Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-29

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fist church.
Rev. Johnston Myers pastor Imman-
uel Baptist church.
Rev. A. C. First, pastor Centenary
Methodist church.
Rev. j. p. Brushingham, pastor Full
ton Street Methodist church. m
Rev. H. D. Kimball, pastor First
Methodist Episcopal church.
Rev. ]. @. A. Henry, pastor LaSalle
Avenue Baptist church.
DR.. Frank Gunsaulus, pastor Ply
mouth Congregational church.
Rev. d. r. Fox, pastor California
Avenue Congregational church.
Rev. T. B. Gregory, pastor Church of
the Redeemer (UniversalisD.
Rev. Kittridge Wheeler, pastor
Fourth Baptist church.
| 1t is we'll to speak the truth. When
| ever the millionaires of Chicago as
| semble around a banquet board and
prepare for few hours of over-eat-
| ing and a champagne debauch, they
! generally select some one of the above
list of divines to offer up a blessing.
Many of these divines oft psrtake even
4 too freely of the good things poured
out by the attendant lackeys.
One is the retained divine" of Mr..
Philip Armour the founder and chief
beneficiary of the beef trust.
Mr.. Hanna has arranged that the
dfvines shall have help in the following
4 way.
s.If the ministers do not place suf-
ficient emphasis on any important POM
the religious press will I'LL the want
Every religious journal in this city !:
delivering hot shot into the free sli
yer ranks, although one must read De
tween the lines. The Interior, the rep
resentative Presbyterian paper, VIII
come out in it's next issue with stron!
i editorial denouncing the attempt
make the fight ore of classes. as Bry
an is now doing. Editor Gray doe
not mention names. but the position
is plain in the editorial which is givel
in full below. The Standard, the Bap
fist organ, will also make a shar
editorial campaign, and the Univer
t salist, as we'll as the Reform Advocate
are going to add their influence i
: behalf of honesty. honor and the pre-
, servation of federal authority"
Let it not be supposed that this GU,
rageous conspiracy can be consummate
e without the vigorous protest OF tn
= American clergy. That they are M
vet ready to bow the knee at the dictt
3 ton of Wall street and the none
u powers is evinced by significant vo
i taken at Terre Haute, Ind.,last MOI
q day. Units article the Chicago Post say
= Before the final adjournment of tt
y northwest Indiana Methodist COME
n ence at Terrc Haute, Ind, yesterday
'e resolution was introduced decrying II
= efforts of the Popocrats to make the
y. sue onebetween capital and labor. Bis
t. op Newman advocated it's adoption, al
he the measure was Isassed by vote
s 80 to "a. At Indianapolis, not maj
1t miles away from the>seaS OF the COME
N ence, Bishop John Hazeh White
nounced yesterday that he would
lg struct all the ministers in his dltaese
ne oppose the reputation of honest tfiea
and the free coinage of silver
,e Upon the courage of those ministe
ne whose sphere of work is removed FRI
,g the all-corrupting influence of corp
" ate wealth, depends the Gaae OF
l. Christian church of America. I
n verage city minister is already
lie "a, ,sidized and willing tool of mono
n o,v This is a harsh thing to say, but
30 10 Coo IS eternal truth. .,>..