The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-04

f EpWOrtn percentage. Be true 10 Iny ln-
 heritance. Recognize no standard that
 loves erudity or illiteraey. but values
 refinement and intelligence, yet does
 not permit education or culture to say | to crudity-gaze at us. Remember we
 are not of the rabble. We are like our forefathers. Our religion is theirs, our methods theirs. Come to us and let us teach you the eternal yerities. but in-
 sists that to the masses the advancing,
 conquering cry shall be-Come to Jesus
 mot come to the individual-or the de-
 nomination. -.
 John Wesley and his helpers. in
 Wordsworth's beautiful phraseology,
 dreamed not of perishable homes. l Dr. Munger said of Horace Bushnell, | ''He had the endowment-anotherm mys- 1 tery of our being-a little more from the open hand of the Creator-a fibre spun more finely-an eye with keener
 and broader yision-a heart that tfrobs with stronger beat. We call it genius.
 What genius will do and where it will go. there is no telling" .... ss | What the genius of John Wesley was
 is part of the worlds history. Is Il <aAd SO llAN L2pNOIlH SCAple4s pOCL anu philosopher through the ministry and
 laity of the Methodist Episcopal church
 for one hundred and nineteen years
 has proclaimed the doctrines of original
 sin--of general redemption-of repen-
 tance-of justification by faith-of the
 witness of the spirit and of Christian
 perfection.
 If time permitted, II would gladly talk
 at length concerning the life and char l acter of John Wesley-its influence l upon the social and religious atmos- phere of England and the effects of his
 message upon the heart of mankind. But my time is limited. must has ten. have previously mentioned the
 three things John Wesley pre-eminent-. l ly saw:
 l 1st. Sin-its cancerous deadliness. 2d. Its antidote--the blood of Jesus. Christ. The necessity Of regeneration
 not reformation as an essential condi- tion for the commencement of success I ful character building. t l 3d. The church. The scope, the swing of a God-to touched, completely equipped. thoroughly organized Chris-g tian soldierv. The need of the age is a revival of l primitive religion-or deep down God
 love-of hatred of iniquity A review of Wesley's teachings would be helpful,l for he regarded sin as little less than | God defiance. He felt deeply the sig-
 nificance of sin as moral evil. . Where are some of the strongholds of sin?
 1st. In the saloon or the attractive cafe where drinking not eating affords
 the largest pecuniary profit.
 What is the saloon? There sensuali- ty. demon, at midday. at midnight, defies religion and morality and laughs l derisively at common decency.
 What is the saloon? There whiskey, an octopus, there comradrie, alcoholic exhilaration, unnatural talkativeness, indecent mirth, disgusting gaiety, prod l igality, vulgarity, profanity, the grimy eight arms of the octopus, grasp innocence and youth, hold them | firmly until the demon sensuality has wrecked both innocence and youth. then mercilessly discards them as too palpable evidences of the degrading eff,
 feet of alcoholic indulgence for public inspection within their own hypocritical. l resorts of responsibility. Wretched pitt fable object lessons they are to human, I ity of manhood stalwartness, beauty in ruins.
 Oh, when will the church of the Lord Jesus with Wesleyan fire move in uni. son against iniquity as it often exists 1 in the cafe and in every saloon? Again. let us look at sin as it sometimes exists in the club.
 When the club is rendezvous for promulgators of vulgar gossip, when it is a resort for gentlemanly or ungentle-
 manly, half-inebriated loafers whose garrulousness is produced by alcoholic
 stimulus, then 1t ceases to be a social or intellectual help, and becomes an en- enny to the home and the church. God forbid that lover of John Wes- l ley should encourage immortality by membership in club that courEenan-
 ces profanity, vulgarity and indecency. Let us look at sin as 1t exists in the l fashionable worldly house or hotel,
 Are not the lovers of worldiness ehasers of an ignis fatuus which they regard as happiness? I once heard hotel l chambermaid remark that she cared for twenty three rooms and twice a week. l had access to one hundred rooms while serving as watch. and that the house. l keepers Bible and one belonging to a guest were the only ones she had seen l in the hotel.
 When woman possesses pride. and vain glory, is dominated by selflshness and harrassed by jealousy, is possessed of an insane desire to have a continuous good time, and devotes no time to the consideration of duties to God and hu-
 manity, she lives purpose1ess life; be-
 comes a namlnon worshiper
 l Oh, Almighty God, grant that every Methodist woman may be loyal to her profession and inheritance and stand as a bulwark aginst extravaganza, world I liness and social insanity. E$. 1 Let us briefly consider iriquity asfit exists in trade. believe commercial l integrity is the rule, commercial dis
 honesty the exception. But in the re-. cent feverish trust period, the watch-i dog legislation has been often fnuzzled, the initiative stified, competition pre- vented and individual rights ignored. | It must be conceded that the utility of the labor union has been demonstra- ted. The honest, intelligent labor lead- CT believes that the employed together