The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-05
same ideas apply to business man and minister alike, as Christian men,

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 Secondly, he must be man of con- victions. No babler of phrases is want l ed, no mere channel of tradition, no mere deliverance of uncertain opinions. ! He must be a man who has faced the l truth, and fought for it, who can take | the living truth and speak to men as a
 prophet from God. Then he will be.
 thirdly, a man of courage. Platitudes
 and general principles are not enough. He must convict men of their own sin. I He must set forth truth in all it's full ness. He must show the demands that | it makes upon life and upon men.
 The minister may be considered as
 pastor next Here two demands are
 made by my correspondents. First,
 that the minister must be a worker, "a
 hustler" second, that he should be in sympathy and close contact with the
 people. Indolence and lack of sympa-
 thy with laboring Ven are charged.
 Here the tendency in modern churches
 is reflected The demand for young
 men is largely due to the fact that
 church officials do pot care so much for
 ripe character experience, learning, or
 even eloquence They want a man who
 will let them lean back, while he acts
 as business manager, drummer for
 church trade, superintendent of labor,
 and man of all work. Therefore he
 must be a "hustler" and "enthusiastic."
 The tendency has its danger. It's cor rective will be the truer idea of the church as the pastors force. not so much his field. There is not to be less work for the minister, but more time for study, for the enrichment of his own life that he may have to give to others, and for the true work of pas toral and personal miniStration to mems souls. Indolence is a danger for ministers, and sl fault with thousands This is chiefly indoIence in the study, a main reason why so many ministers pass the "dead line" when they ought to be at the prime of usefulness.
 That the minister is out of sympathy or touch with men is rarely true cer- tainly not through over-education. In the speakers class at the Yale divinity school large majority of the men had had experience in either manual labor or business in securing funds for their education. A more real fault is the lack of that education which would give them the thought of the thinking men of to-day, and enable them to under stand and meet the needs of such men,
 As regards the minister as preacher one writer says: "The minister does not preach enough about the problems of every day life, individual, political and business. A second insists that | since religion includes the relations of | man to man and political economy is the science of these relations, therefore l this should be included in his preacr- { ing. A third charges lack of interest | In the great problems of civic and na- tional welfare and lack of courage, for | in denouncing all war. 4 university professor says that an ir17- patience with closer formula tions of [ ruth and an ignorance of the fresher and more vital statements are reason able for the absence of many men A prominent judge declares that the min ster is at fault if he fails to get the ull benefit of modern thought and | scholarship, or if he professes and breaches the old doctrines and believes he new. A business man declares. that % much time is taken up with dogmas md too little with the direct teaching