Mower County transcript., 1903-10-14

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T At the recent NJ. E. conference at
Redwood Falls, Bishop Fowler made
ch aracteristic address to the class of
candidates for full membership in the
ministry. He commenced his address
to the class by saying that the fun was
now all over, and that the "bloody
sweat" has commenced. He told the
| class they were men-not babies;> that
if they wanted to be Baptist or Pres
byterian minister now was the time to-
| drop out-before the covenant was TAX
en-. "You have been out of school for
two years., he said, "and most of you
think you have been preaching. But
you have only been praeticing. If,
after you have been assigned, some
man offers you 25 cents more for
preaching over in his pasture you have
no moral right to accept. There is only
one man who can do 1.-THE bishop,
he's the underkicker."
Dwelling on denominations, Bishop
Fowler, said that he liked the Baptist
church because if a man got into it he
always knew it.. He liked the Presby-
terrain church, but assigned no reason.
After explaining what Methodism
was he told the class that if any one of
them had any other belief in the Slight
est, he beseeched them in Gods name
to get out. He did not believe in limp
and lazy liberalism, but the stern faith
of St. Paul, that gave, the people some
thing for their belief in salvation and
IT the class went out on that theory the
adoption would be complete. He would
sooner see all the schools sink out of
sight than to see the Methodist church
loose its faith in. Jesus Christ.
If the students were merely going out
to exhort, to preach, they had better go
back and sit down-the benches were
for others. Exhorting was like whip
without lash-you couldn't even
tickle horse with it.
b "Don't tell a man his sins are forgiv-
en-it isn't your job. It. belongs to
another. If a man goes away don't
tell him he is going to perdition that
isn't your job <,.5>s .:..szs.1 ~ 4
! IS Don't IDEAS the doctors used te=ao= =
bleed all the people on one street today,
and give them emetics tomorrow the
undertakers were the winners. Don't
do as woman has done-look at a
glass all day to see what kind of face
4 she had.
"Some people think they can love
God and not their neighbor. They are
mistaken. God is always with the
neighbor.
eff you steal sermon own up to it.
Don't have dynamite under your pulpit
that will explode and land you on the
other side of Jordan in ) two parallel
lines. Monday morning. Don't put big
words in your sermon. They are an
indication that you don't know any
thing. Use little words. Make them
say something.
"Work! You don't see farmers hold
ing conventions On how to lead cattle
up to the rack. You don't want to
either.
"Circuit preaching is hard on the
horse. Stationary preaching is hard on
the man Work for the latter.
"If can get two of you out of this
class to succeed will consider all this
effort paid for. I don't: think many of
you will succeed. know you will be
mad. But the great temptation: is
likely to overcome you. 1t isn't women
! that's bad enough. It's laziness."
Bishop Fowler advised the ministers
to remember names and faces, insist,
ing thatit was a large portion of the
work.
| TO the class of candidates for full
ministry at the NJ E. Conference at
Sioux City, Bishop Fowler said: "Get
married, and marry a woman with
common sense. Never marry a woman
just because she is. pious. If it is put
to you to choose between a woman who
has great deal of common sense and
no religion and woman who has
plenty of religion and no common
sense, choose the woman with common
! sense. If she has common sense and
no religion she will get the latter with
!; in two hours after she marries you
: but if she has religion and no common
sense she might backslide, and hav.
) no doubt you would give her plenty 0,
4oS hell ~