The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1902-09-09
LOUISVILLE MINISTER'S
Do Not Agree With Mr.. McNutt-
No Need For a Churdh
With Amusements.


Presbyterian minister, formerly o.
Indianapolis, has started small
sensation with his cry of new
doctrine--''a Labor Church for tn,
Laboring Man.. Four years age
the minister gave up a church tC
become laboring man. His views,
he claims, are the results of his ex.
perience during the years he has
worked as day laborer.
The labor preachers ideas and
thoughts are set forth in the fol
lowing summary:
MR.. McNUTT's IDEAS.
Have the churches of God been
placed under the monopoly of the
cultured and commercial classes,
and have they barred the doors of
the sanctuary to the man whose
parents were laborers and who him
self is laborer?
Has the wage Garner and his
wife any place in the management
of our churches in the average In
diana cities and county seats?
Have we of the cloth, culture
and commercialism already placed
the dollar sign on the gospel? And
between the dollar sign and the
blue label which is the better?
The CRIME of honest toll, when
imbedded in the flesh and defying
soap, and visit to one of our
churches in the garb of "a laborer,
would be a wholesome lesson for
some mer who bewail how the la
boring classes are running to Sun
day baseball and the saloon.
The church. is cursed today by
the spirit of caste, the outgrowth
of educational ideals that the great
object of life and education is to
learn the trick of lodging the
worlds great work.
Let the Labor Church have its
bowling alleys, it's billiard and pool
tables, it's swimming pools and 9TH
er amusements that go to make up
the social and club life of the COM
munity, and let these amusements
be operated on broad liberal ba-
sis.
The Church of God should not
only have its rafters shaken by the
anthems of praise, but also by the
laughter of His people; and when
such a church springs up let it not
be said that the saloon is the only
place in town where men can go
where they can find the milk of hu-
man kindness and amusement.
Several Louisville ministers and
workers who have had wide exper-
fence were asked their opinions on
the Rev. McNutt's ideas.
DR.. w. F. Lloyd, pastor of the
Walnut street Methodist church,
said:
'If there is any effort to make
the churches monopoly of cultur-
ed and commercial classes it is un-
known by me, and certainly does
not obtain in the Methodist church
rs with which am acquainted. !
God made all alike, and we know
DO difference. A labor church that
gave prominence to bowling alleys, !
billiard tables, swimming pools
and 'other amusements' would soon
ose the character of true church
md would fail to save men. Let
is all stay together"
LABoRING MAN WELCOME.
The Rev. A. P. Lyon, pastor of
Lander Memorial church, expressed
himself as follows: "There is no
leed of great labor church. To
wen talk of it is instantly to bring
he mater of class distinction into
he worship of God, / have been
/ minister for some years, and
lave known many churches, but l
lave yet to hear of one in which
aboring man is not, welcome. A
church for the laboring
nan only would be as wrong as a
hurch for rich man only. There
hould be no rich and no poor in
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