Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-12-02
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HIS FAREWELL.
A Clergyman in the west country had
two curates, one a comparatively old
man, the other very young.
With the former he had not been able
to work very agreeably, and OH being
invited to another living he accepted il
and took the young curate with aim.
Naturally there was a farewell ser
mon, and we can imagine the feelings
i of the curate who was to be left be-
hind When he heard the text given OUT
Abide We here with the ass, and and
4 the lad will go yonder and worship.
Spare Moments
BELIEVES IN ADJUSTMENTS.
DR.. Hartman says the church should
encourage innocent games, as Indicated
4 herewith:
"A passage between Italy and Sicily
i became famous in classical history. 1t
was a marrow and difficult passage and
4 lit required nerve and good seamanship
Ito pass it in safety. ON one side Was
A Sicily and on the other Charybtiis.
Sicily stretched out her long neck and
seized the sailor who rentured too near
Il her. If he avoided Sicily he ran risks
s. Of being engulfed by Charybiis. A
Il minister who speaks on amusements
has to run the gauntlet of Sicily and
81 Charybdis. On the one hand are those
stern, unbending and not very attract
Il i've religious people who frown down ALI
& pleasure and try toscrush all anuse-3
ii ment out of life. On the other hand are
81 those who seem to be Without discrim-
"A ination on this matter of amusenlents
They rush blindly into good and bad
alike. There is a great and growing
middle party who are quite positive
that fun and amusement properly be-
& long to life, and that any attempt to
frown upon them and put them down is
doomed to failure. They are equally
aware that great discrimination is to be
; used in order that LAWFUL and innocent
amusements alone shall be INDUCED in.
should like to see the hands of this
! last party strengthened and the en-
: phasis put on the inquiry as to what
Lis legitimate and what is rot iegiti-
: mate. For myself | state three posi-
t tons: That the Bible has a place for
: amusements; that the demand for
amusefnents is reasonable; that it is
t the duty of the church to face the
: problem fairly and kindly. The sad
: thing is that the church has turned its
back upon the whole matter. 1t has
handed amusements over to the devil
with the exception of a few. which are
, too silly for him to use or sensible peo-
Pile to take part in. Along this line the
I, church has been doing its very best tc
E ALLEVIATE the sympathiess OF young men
. and women. A reversal of this policy
! must come. The attitude of the cnurcl
: toward amusements must be revised
5 and a fairer and more human attitude
: assumed. Amusements that are wholly
: evil and there are many of them, mus
e be more vigorously opposed. Among
a amusements where good and evil feat
ures are present, the evil must be re.
moved and the good strengthened. In
nocent and reasonable games should
: be encouraged and cultivated.
CHRIsT,sH ATTITUDE TOWARD
v ERROR.
= For the purpose of helping minister
( and teachers in dealing With new error
S and .'isms. the November Record o
o Christian Work publishes a symposium
: by leaders in religious thought on th,
= question:. "What was the teaching d
t Christ regarding His disciples atti
d tude toward error. and toward thos,
: who held erroneous doctrinesos' Or
: Lyman Abbott, in his reply, holds tina
e Christ never condemned any man 10
e a merely Intellectual error:
ii HE never, so far as i recall, indieat
: he'd that his disciples should separate
!, themselves from any man because 5
g intellectual error He never made tn
i intellectual acceptance of any artiel
n of belief a condition OF discipleshfp
y He never even attacked with invectiv
e or rebuke the Sadducees. who wer
$, the unbelievers Of His day, as He di,
L attack the Phariseas, who were til
IS false pre,ende,s OF his dav: though
i when the Sadalieess attacked Him. III
& showed with unerring spiritual sagae
i iity their shal,owness and short-sight
n esiness.
ii DR.. nj. T.. Moody believes that IN
g statement of error is like dronpjn
+ seed if often suggests what woul
d. al ferxyise never occur ia man.
At IT is for this reason that Christ
At teu,shjnp vas always eonstrl,ctiye ~