The age-herald., 1898-01-09
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l The utteranceS of Rev. A. C. DlXon re- gently regarding women indicate that the days of intolerance are not passed; that the 1 time of unbecoming, reckless speech still l exists
 The latter part of this remarkable cen tury has been prolific in sensational preach | CTS, that species of humanity that is weight to the cause of Christianity and an l offense to good morals and to good man. | ners.
 l Several notable specimens of this genus have degraded sacred pulpits with their dis l gusting pandering to a vitiated popular l taste, and have lowered the standard of religious oratory by their irridescent fam | bouyant preaching.
 l They have illuminated the very heavens l with their pyrotechnic displays of pictur- esque language, only to leave the earth darker than before when their short-lived powder had burned out.
 1 Many of these sensational preachers have made money by their Sunday exhibitions. but they have made the cause of Christ | poorer, inasmuch as they have degraded religion with their mountebank perform | ances.
 1 sensationalism is one thing, Christianity l IS another ana Tar QlIlerenC ndIIer. l The majority of these denominational I testers cause everything in life to be sub | serviant to the advancement of their repu- tations and the enlargement of their | purses.
 The needs of suffering humanity fade into utter insignifcance compared with the l notoriety which comes to them through the public press and because of the plaudits i of that class which only desire relaxation I and diversion on the Lords day. l The sensational preacher, pure and sim l pie, has but two objects in view-to make l an excitement and to create a bank ac- l count.
 1 It is within the province of every | ministers of the gospel to feel an ac- l tive interest in all the public ques- tions of his time, and it should be his duty to take an unequivocal position | upon every matter which has any bearing upon the conditions of the human race. | He should stand for law, order and every | form of morality in his pulpit and out of it, and should throw the weight of his in- | fuence, with his sermons and his life, for the uplifting oI humanity.
 The minister of Christ is the teacher of | the higher and better forms of living, and he is derelict and unworthy unless he does his part towards the formation of the best public opinion and the elevation of all classes of the worlds population.
 There is no selfishness, no exclusiveness about genuine Christianity. It embraces | everything that is destined to improve men and women in every strata of society," | of ho pie at heart is certainly wasting many pre- cious opportunities, when, like Dr. Dixon, he says all manner of silly, uncalled for things about women and their work. His attack upon what he termed the "three | apostacies of modern times" was unneces- sary and offensive in the extreme
 Dr. Dixon seems to have grown very irate when he considered the possibility of women being permitted to preach. He claims that they are physically and relig- iously unfit for the holy office of ministers | of the gospel.
 It is not expedient to enter into a med ical discussion of their fitness, but cer- tainly the records of every denomination | in America will prove that women have been the corner-stones upon which religion I has reared it's magnificent proportions, and without the ceaseless, untiring labor and sacrifice of the women of every church, there would be small need for clergymen of any faith. Few women desire to preach, which fact should have soothing effect l upon the purturbed soul of Dr. Dixon, but many of them are good enough to stand in the holiest part of any sanctuary. While pr. Dixon is blatantly expressing his sen- sationalism, the women in the churches are living sermons every day by their de- votion to duty and their faith in Christ.
 Dr. Dixon does not approve of modern newspapers any more than he admires women preachers
 Without the enterprising reporters on New York journals, this self-same preacher would be but little known outside of his own congregation.
 It would be well if the active young newspaper men would only report such evils as murders and suicides of the metropolis and leave the pages of. their journals free from such offensive matter as that contributed frequently by pr. Dixon.
 Dr. Dixon, with picturesque eloquence,
 declares in substance that "women are either angels or dcmons.' iTe denies that they can occupy any mludie Srounu III HUT als religion.
 The experience of this thrower of eccle- siastical cannon crackers must have been limited ani fortunate. If he breaches many more such sensational sermons as
 that of last Sunday, the world will con-
 clude that he has seen very few angels.
 and that he is suffering from an attack of
 delirium trements-with it's full quota of
 q hV
 stimulation of his grey matter, with an
 effort to be pulpit orator, when he is only blatant and sensational public speaker