Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
SECULAR suors At rur PULPIT.

indianapolis Press. Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy, the noted Christian Scientist, has
given her son a Christmas present Of $4,000
in money and q dwelling house worth So
600. There is no Imagination about this.
Buffalo Express: The fighting parson o.
Royal Oak. Mich, has been invited by De-.
troit's mayor to give a s]parring exhibition
with q genuine pugilist as one turn in a
charity Vaudeville performance. This opens
up a new field OF work for muscular Chris
tians.
st. Paul Pioneer Press; OR" Dowie, the
alleged divine healer OF Chicago, Is about TO
locate a new Zion in the vicinity OF Waukc-
gan. The Waukegan people are a triflc shy
Of the enterprise, and no wonder Such
lions as have been planted in this country
hitherto have not been precisely hotbeds OF
spirituality.
Boston Transcript: Fourteen American
missionaries in Turkey have sent to a United
statce senator . petition asking that
gambling be prohibited in the Distric; Of
Columbia and the territories. This proves
that foreign missionaries DO not necessarily
regard their W country as beyond the need
Of reforming and civillzing influence; also
that they find time in distant parts to con-
slider the moral needs Of the home land.
Brooklyn Eagle: DR.. Talmage, who, of
course, knows all about everything, in
speaking Of matters which will follow the
day of Judgment, says: Then our ruined
planet will begin to smoke, and the noun
tains will smoke and the valleys will smoke
ana the seas will smoke and the cities will
smoke and the five continents will smoke"
One can only hope they will use good To-
bacco. But of that the doctor can be no
Judge, for he does not smoke here. except
with his own eloQuence, and, we trust, he
will not smoke hereafter.
Indianapolis News: 1t was announced in
the dispatches the other day that the pope
had designated" his successor. OF course
this is something that the pope cannot do.
His successor will be elected as ether popes
have been elected-that is, by the college Of
cardinals. And the probabilities are that
any effort of the present occupant Of the
papal throne to control the succession would
simply result in making the choice OF his
candidate impossible, and this, not because
Leo is not trusted and loved, but because
the cardinals are extremely jealous of their
own independence.
Springfield Republican: Rev. DR.. Sydney
Strong Of Chicago caused a sensation the
other day by telling a congregation that the
peace sentiment is not nearly so strong in
the United States as it was sixty years ago.
and that the ministers of the gospel have
been foremost in urging the nation into its
present course Of force and blood. He de-
clared in effect that to call such a nation
Christian was the basest hypocrisy. The
reports say that when the meeting broke up
the people remained in groups to discuss the
sermon, and about the only sentiment eX-
pressed was that it was timely and true.
Buffalo Express: The Rev. DR.. w. S.
Rainsford of st. Georges Episcopal church
in New York said in his sermon on Sunday:
From the echoes | hear from other places
and from errors of my own in this place of
which | have been conscious, | feel that the
clergy, moved by the stirring interest of the
times, have a tendency to lay down the law
to their people on secular matters. They
are inclined to instruct the lawyer about
his cases, the financier about the policy of
his bank, to enter the labor uni-ns where
men are struggling with the problems of
lettering their own condition and say do
this and do that to sweeping judgments
on the Philippine question and the Boer
war. If | err in this way pay no attention
to me. God knows, | pray to be delivered
from it." This is a manly and a modest
man,