Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-05-19

10 me that what people need is 6. day
Of relief from the eternal hustle one
day cut of seven to get acquainted
with their families. If you can pass
q resolution that will go to the hearts
Of the public you will have accom-
plished something. Generally the
adoption of resolutions is the public
funeral of question, preceding the
snterment, which is priyate-in the
minutes Of the general assembly.
Here the Rev. DR.. Hathaway, sec
Rotary Of the Sabbath union. jumped
TO the front Of the platform
Mr.. Chairman" he said, The
Sabbath union prints all these resolu-
tons and sends them to every Pres
byterian clergyman in the country,
DR.. Holmes included"
DR.. Hathaway then accused the
commission to the general assembly
of not being strict on Sunday OBJ
servanee themselves. He said he had
noticed there were some ministers
who filled pulpits in this city Sunday
morning and in communities 80 miles
away at night He added land there
are at least 10000 professed Chris
tians playing golf this very minute in
the vicinity of this city Pray for
them.
The Rev. DR.. Herrick Johnson, of
| Chicago, preaching in the Brick Pres
byterian church, gave an exposition
of Presbyterianism as understood by
him. He said in part:
Tells What Presbyterianism is.
I'VE heard from a Chicago plat
form, out of the mouth of an evan
gelieal clergyman in good standing,
that our orthodoxy staggers at moth
ing that will fill hell and is always
facing a graveyard, looking at the
dead past. To vindicate the Presby-
terrain belief from the aspersions cast
upon it, For God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten Son,
| that whatsoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlast-
ing life. There is the foundation of
our theology.
There is nothing on earth, moth
/ ing in hell, nothing in the Whole uni
verse outside our own hearts that can
prevent our being saved. Thus, the
Presbyterian orthodoxy is trying to
! FIJI heaven while it Is represented as
trying to fill hell
But what OF election? Nothing.
! believe in election. Suppose that
! 200 men are in prison and announce
ment is made that all have been par
doned and the doors are thrown open
and no man goes out. Then | go to
! $50 of them, and with kind of low
| ing violence persuade them to leave
prison. That is election, but do |
keep the others in? The way is open
for them. Every man can be free II
| he will"
| DR.. johnson concluded by express
sizes would not end with mere
creedal statement, but would excite
Presbyterian men and women to re-
member that there are hundreds of
millions of living persons who have
never heard of Christ.
In the Presbyterian church" he
/ said, there are many millionaires.
Let them organize trust. not to put
up the price or to control the COM
merce on anything, but trust to dis
seminate in all corners of the globe
the gospel of Christ"
Denver a Sinful City.
At meeting held in the Fifth Ave
nue. Presbyterian church for the pur-
pose of stimulating interest in evan
gelistic work and at which the great
church was crowded to the doors, the
Rev. DR.. F. Coyle. of Denver, Colo,
drew a sombre picture of religious
conditions in the west He said the
people there were irreligious when
they began life, and by education
were prejudiced against all sorts of
| Christian work. He implored the
committee on evangelistic work to go
into the western field. He said of the
evangelists needed
None of your heavy, soggy, water
logged gospel preachers can ride on
our western waves. We want no
pyrotechnical preachers, nor do we
want any sensationalists, nor do we
want any gospel platitudes. We do
not want any theology which is
frayed in the ends and moth eaten
in the middle. We in the western
land want the lightning, not the
aurora borealis. The people in the
west, | am sorry to say, are not very
anxious to have any preaching at all,
but if you want to preach to us, you
must preach straight, direct gospel,
with twentieth century trimmings
and up-to-date illustrations. We want
this or nothing"
Further along DR.. Coyle said:
Il do not think even Paul the Apos-
tie could have accomplished anything
against such hardened indifference as
we find in Denver. There is hardly
any Sabbath, and absolutely no Sab
bath observance. Sinai no longer
smokes and thunders. In my church
Mt Denver we have dismissed as many
members as we have received in re-
cent years."