Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-11

Washington Post: when a Baltimore
preacher takes 10 wearing colorcd shirts
there is but one thing for him to do, ana
that Is to move TO New York,
Globe Democrat: II would be jus, like
the trust to sock another cent a pound on
the price OF paper while Rev. DR. sheldon
is demonstrating what a good world this
might he.
Boston Transcript: The Brooklyn reviy-
alis;s have jumped upon prize euchro with
both feet. but they have not yet got around
to public condemnation OF sunday horse rae
ing on the Speedway,
Cleveland Leader: Cardinal Gibbons dccs
rot appear to be afraid to go out after trou-
Bile. lie preached a sermon last Sunday in
which he said he regarded woman's rights
advocates as the worst enemies Of society,
or words to that effect.
Minneapolis Tribune: A queer lot Of
preachers infest the town of Springfield, Mo.
Quite recently the women OF the place or
Eauized an anti-gosSip society and naturally
supposed the city pastors would approve CT
the plan. But for some ins,rutabic reason
tho pastors, as one man. criticised the inuo-
walton severely from their pulpits and the
CN3grinrd women are at a loss to know
where Christian charity can he found.
Cleveland Plain Dealer; Services in a
Boston church were conducted recently b.
two talking machines, one of them delivering
a sermon that was preached into 1t by the
absent pastor. There wasn't much personal
magnetism about the services, perhaps, but
the audience seemed to enjoy the n~evelty.
when You come to think of it this is a really
dangerous precedent for the clergy. If the
talking machine can usurp the pastors place
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in many churches and on all occasions? Th,
same sermon falling from gifted lips upon
the prepared cylinder. might be ground out
in a dozen churches at the same hour. Yes,
and the choir is in danger. too. A quartet
of eminent singers might furnish the molo-
dies for twenty churches, while one organist
could fill the demand for instrumental music
equally well and in the same Wholesale
manner. OF course with an instrument that
can announce that the usual collection will
now be taken up, and the mothers meeting
will take place next Friday afternoon. there
can be little left to be desired.
Chicago Chronicle: The Methodist
Preachers association of New York City l..
beginning to have a dim glimmering Of q
truth which has been entirely patent to or
binary sinners for a good many years. That
is to say, the disciples of Wesley are led
w blii II NhAS Nplio hS " ONNlluoh Nut
most besotted heather of the world at our
own doors while we are contributing mil
lions in efforts to convert remote, faw-away
heathen.' Let us hope that the brethren
will continue to ponder the matter until
they have received full light upon 1t. Con-
siGeration of the problem may likewise be
commended to statesmen like the Hon. John
T. Morgan of Alabama and elsewhere, who,
while emitting agonized howls over the So
called race problem in the south, propose to
annex one tenfold greater on the other side
o. the world. When the yawping preachers
and politicians of this country realize that
this enlightened republic of ours will stand
about as much regenerating as any country
on earth we may hope for the abandonment
of spiritual and material schemes of con-
quest and return once more to the whole
some and salutary employment OF minding
our own business.