Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-20


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l3F0R SUNDAY HEADING.
i@ All sorts Of Opintons.
4 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 41AH1ti
CHRISTIANITY IN COMMERCE
WOULD BENEFIT MERCHANTS.
Rev. Frank M. Careon OF the Lake
View Presbyterian church touched again
irecently upon the subject OF Christian
lity as applied to commercialism and to
jeveryday business life. was CUR
sIprised, said he, at the reception my
4 last Sundays sermon met from the bus
mess men Of my church. I spoke very
PLAINLY. anticipated criticism, but
none came. Instead the business men
i came to me, many OF them, and said:
a That is the kind Of talk that we want
I to hear; it is what we need. Applied
d Christianity is what is needed most in
d the business world of today.
have been told that preaching COM
lmercial righteousness would drive peo-.
Iple from the church, that they would
not hear it. The words quoted above
from the men most touched in my ser
mon disprove that statement. aver
that where such preaching will drive
!. one person out 1t will bring thirty in.
"A young man of my congregation
came to me last week and declared that
he was obliged by his employer to lie
Il every day in the week in little things
/ and big. Has Christianity no place in
!, business? The question is not. What is
J, your creed?' but What Is your life?
There was railroad strike in Buffalo
some time ago. and IN the publication
/ OF both sides of the affair it was brought
; out that some of the switchmen We're
lobliged to work thirty-sx hours at a
stretch without rest In the investiga-
ton Of a railroad accident in France, a
! short while ago. testimony showed that
the man upon whom the blame was put
/. had been without sleep for forty hours.
I And then when men protest against
!. these things We call them anarchists
r Has Christian righteousness nothing
r to do with these things? Most of the
0 laws of this and other countries are
4 made necessary by mans humanity to
. his fellow man. Has Christian right
h eousness no place in these things? We
a must learn not only to love God but to
: love our fellow men: we must be Chris
Sid1lS IlOl5ssOlIly OuC every "
v in the week. Take your religion into
+ |your business; you Will profit by it,
ENGLISH METHODIST.
The general conference of the Wesley
: an church in England has taken step
9 In the same line as the general confer
{ Ience of the Methodist Episcopal church
9 I'm this country. and taken ii so quietly
that it received very little notice. From
y the time in which a ministerial confer
g SIience came into possession of Wesley's
e iautocracy the progressive section of the
!. tlaity have in various ways been con-
e tending for equality in all matters not
y Exclusively pastoral, and also share in
e the management of the publishing Tho
Q ministers have held firmly to their pre-
II. rogative, but this year they conceded
e full co-operationto the laity on both
v these long and bitterly contended points
BOSTON COMMON a RELIGIOUS
BEDLAM
When the Salvat!onists invaded the
!. Common there was quite a fight in ths
: courts over the question Of open-air ser.
: yices. The salvationists Won the day
I, :, And as result Boston Common has be
y come q veritable Holy Fair agains
SiAS AOuSs 1Hd srSSQl0.5 pupETSi III
III equally in arms. From Unitarians i
IS Salvationists the whole gainut Of theol
m ogy is sounded. and under the guise q
= sermons red-ho anarchy is freely dis
" ssminated among the thousandso of idler
" who gather on the mall. Worse than
le3 Bedlam of cranks. it threatens to be
Is. come a Very pandernonium OF uncleal
n spirits, if 1t is not so already-InterioI
AIooDY's VOTE OF THANKS.
Youths Companion: Possibly the mos
novel response ever made to reques
: to return a vote of rhanks,to chairmal
: was that made by Mr.. Moody during hi
:. first visit to Eng gland.
= He had attended meeting at which
y the Earl Of SALISBURY was chairman
:. The duty OF proposing a vote of thank
was ssgned to him, and the announce
Is 5ment made.
s Our American cousin. the Rev. Nj
- NJ oody of Chicago Will now move a rot
: t5of thanks to the noble earl who ha
+ presided on this occas sion"
of The whole thing was quite out of Nj
r Moody's line. English formalities nigh
"a or might not have cone gracefully fror
ie his lips had he attempted them but h
atidid not. With an utter disregard of con
he burst upon the audienc
With the bold announcement:
The speaker has made " o mistake.
= To begin with. I'm nor, the Rev. Nj
= Moody at all. I'm plain Dwight L
i Moody. a Sunday school worker. An
:, then I'm not your American cousin b
-. =. the grace of God I'm your brother, il,
= tteres.ed With you IN our Fathers wor
=, flor His children.
~ And now about this vote of thank