The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-05
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II the people would not !
very creature to hear the gos,
ONE to the churches Order would
ell. the members of the would
AXE the gospel to them. They -.
O out into the highways and by-waS-
nd compel the people to hear Inc
of the order led on by
,,,r,irg zeal for souls were every
yhere preaching in the fields, in 'he
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streets, wherever anyone cou.u ~
10 hear. Like the Salvation Army it
was derided. abused laughed at. It's
methods were said to be unseemly ana /
such as would bring contumely and ,
disrespect ON the church and the gos-
pel But it was not long before the
became Respectable and in
effective. The notorlety they achieved
attracted to their ranks men not fired
with zeal for preaching the gospel,
but anxious to get into good and re-
spectacle company. Men took the opll-
cations of the Dominican order not be-
cause they felt called to the work as
a
an avocation. Converts dying left be-
quests to the order and its fate as
moving force was sealed. With the
ownership of property it became con-
servative. Having something to lose it
began to fear any change of condi-
tions. Before, it would have turned the
world upside do N to save souls. Now
it began to be very careful about any
thing too radical. And SO from a move
ment the order of Dominicans became
an institution. 1t ossifed from an ac-
/ tivity that knew no rest into the para
Lying influence it is found in the
| philippines.
The history of score of preaching
orders in the Catholic church is but a
REPETITION of the history of the Domini-
cans.
In the Protestant churches where
preaching movements have usually
taken the form not of a new order but
of a new denomination the same pro-
Icesses have followed each other. Me-
thodism had it's beginnings in a preach
ing movement. 1t had its growth in
it's "protracted meetings." it's lay
preaching, it's revivals and its expert
ence meetings. And Methodsm in very
large degree for nearly a century main
tanned it's preaching fervor and its
growth. But as its energies became
, diverted from preaching to building
fine churches and establishing univer-
stiles, growth decreased. Bishop Fowl
er of the Methodist church in one OF
, the early sermons of his episcopate
world by the beginning of this century
= basing his prediction on the growth OF
Methodism. With the beginning of the
century came a world still unconvert-
= ed and Methodism at a standstill in
growth. The Methodist church haC
/ changed from a great preaching move.
+ ment to a great ecclesiastical institu
, ton; an institution great in the eXten
I of it's benevolences, great in it's literar!
, and publishing interests. great in it!
church edifces and in the schools anC
f colleges it maintains, great as a static
, force.
The Young Mems Christian Associa.
ton began as '-italising, evangeliz'
ing, preaching force. Wherever i
sprang into existence it's yoke fellows
were to be seen holding out of door
services, preaching, spreading the COS.
pei. It's early reports were of CONVEX.
sions of souls saved 1t was predicted
of it that it was the agency which
would save the world because it was
utilizing the services sOf young men ii
preaching the gospel. The Young
Mems Christian Association has just
celebrated its golden jubilee. 1t has
become a great institution. It's prop
erty in Y. NJ. c. A. buildings and real
estate amounts to millions 1t carries
on immense athletic and educational
enterprises. In its reports gymnasium
and evening class statistics take the
pace of conversions and open air meet
ings of the earlier days. The same
change has come over it that has come
over other things 1t is an institution
not a preaching movement.
The great wave of evangelical
preaching set in motion by Dwight l..
Moody, which fired hundreds of other
hearts with preaching zeal has largely
succumbed to the same seemingly in
evitable process and has become insti-
tutonali2ed into bible schools of which
the one at Mortified, Mass, is the
type and flower, institutions of great
good doubt but without the dynamic,
the moving force of the great preach
in propaganda that gave them birth
Even the Salvation Army, originally
a preaching movement, comparable
only to the Dominican movement and
the movement under the Wesleys and
Whitfield, is beginning to show signs
of the same process towards the in
stitutional. Devoted in its early days
to preaching, 90 carrying the gospe
to those who would not otherwise hear