The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-21
ADDRESS BY H. H. BENEDICT
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 The institutional conception of the scope of the christian church althAuS of not so recent origin as the autom '' bile method of travel Is yet like that m its experimental stage.
 One of the church's problems ot to- day is not simply to touch the young but to hold them. When we consider that the average young person Of this century is sharper, more restless, more ambitious. more concerned concerning social position, less satisfied with the attractiveness of a sitting room fire, less appreciative of the magic of motn- CTS responsiveness or of father s wisdom. in short more intelligent if not more judicious than the yodng person of 1850 or 1S70-the problem mcreasF'5 in seriousness and now my brother Wao was converted a half century or more ago and has not backslidden remarks if A young man or woman is sound y converted, they will remain so
 l beg to differ.
 , Given the same conditions, and l ad- init the correctness of your assertion. But since 1850, the theater, the club, the cafe, the saloon, have more than kert SGD with the progress of the century. The sea, the mountains, the country club, the trolley and bicycle invite the yolng to test their powers, to interesF to fascinate whilst the church has not largely offered increasing attractions.
 Dear friends, the primal difficulty to- day in the church is lack of funds Give us money and we will use It to- wards the conversion and christian ed ucation of the masses. l know nave perhaps the uneviable reputation of be- ing professional began. Well, the daor Tord remembered Lazarus, He may me.
 I have little sympathy with the Methodist brother who testified in the class meeting that he loved His church for during twenty-five years since his conversion, it had cost him only S2a.OO
 I did like his class leader who sug' gested prayer instead of testimony and led we'll and beautifully when he said, 70, Lord, have mercy we beseecf Thee upon the miserable, shrunken, in corrigible, wretched, stingy sinner whose testimony is so heavy, so thlcf with worldly moisture that it weighs heavily upon us, and we fear will clos our nostrils, and already has made oul respiration difficult"
 Friends, if we pass the plate this morning for collection for current eX penses, remember please that for very particular reasons we want large col lection Do, please, just this time, ev' cry one if possible, put in dollar ol more. It may. mean the conversion o1 some poor wanderer.
 I love good clothes, good food, goot books-good fishing, but l dearly love big collection in the sanctuary-a bis benevolent thought-a big use of dol $ lars.
 Fourth. The church should be a: well organized as an invading army 1T an enenly's country. It should have picked men and women under the su perintendency of the pastor to explore investigate and attack, to comfort cheer, help, persuade, entice men ant women to the church.
 = Fifth. It should we'll compensate thu pastor.
 Once upon a time devout brothe reluctantly and yet from his view poin necessarily moved in the, official boart that the pastors salary be reduced from $1,5O0 to $1,20O. He did not realiz the subtle temptation of the devil. The moment we commence reduction of the shepherds hire, we hurt tn ! flock. Decline If not disintegration ire quently ensues.
 7. You remark, will payment of goot , salary tend to keep alive the church Yes, for it keeps the minister alive He cannot live on air. He and hi family require food, clothes, fuel books Years ago, a motion for reduction was made in a certain official board no many miles from our own city. A larg hearted, large brained man immediatel arose and remarked Brothers, have always made this rule concernin treatment of employees. Treat then well. Pay them we'll I must oppos this motion. I desire to treat the pas z tor as well as my employees"
 Not long ago, minister of a larg church in this city was assistant pas tor in one of the wealthiest churche in New York city. One day he fell O, the street, was conveyed to the hos pital A half dozen doctors agreed i their diagnosis. He had no organi disease. There had been no cerebra ] disturbance. The heart was sound The disease starvation. His salar was few hundred dollars. Books clothes and rent took his money an , the table suffered. We should stimu late, encourage the pastor by lovin consideration of his material comfor
 Remember that the cost of living ha increased within the past few years
 I have not time to elaborate further 5 The arch enemy is subtle using up-to ;" date methods. The church of this cleo trical century must use the horse, tn trolley, the bicycle, the telephone a time savers.
 The church of the 2Oth century shoul proclaim in the simplicity of other an older days the old story sweeter, older than the story of love told by Apo obediah at the Therapian palace to tn beautiful Princess Irene-even tn story of the cross.
 The necessity of repentance must b emphasized. Only as men, when the have set their faces against God see Christ through repentance as we'll a faith, will they know by felt, real ex perience the blessedness of regenera tion.
 The new century christian expects t know he is saved and not to hope st The disposition to know in science wi pervade the spiritual domain.