Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-04-19

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other wealthy and iosaiy and nationally
famed practitioners Of 81. GcDrg, IS nom
ether ihan J pi.rI,on' Morgan 1rac'
,nuffh is tailed far and "id' - 4 fashion
able place nj worship. HAowise Trinity
cfilf,h i!ostun y.t these cilirhes &c
nishi to"u 90 ~. poor man and his wants
iarpris -. b.cau-. The, are SPECIALIZED fast.
iofotlf churches sin,r MONEY and lots u
if IN mo avcraye case Is essential To M
proper pursuit OF in-titutonai Work IA d
l4rga ,lfy.
Salvation Of the Downtown Church.
listltEtipnrl methods have truly been
"a, saivalioi u many = downtown church
~ trorse'S Nas ;olt.ring WEAKLY on is
iaai lcss "irn Dr kaiusfotd began in4ti-
fu'onal work ,here t"cnty -threey earsago.
WIN ihr descendants Of ~ former parish
i"u"f- sraftrred pver upper Sew York.
Grace holds together by reason OF It's
institutional 'ud~afprs among .he board
TX hpos' md tenement wellers surround
.rs # ia The lower numbered streets me
Ninih Sire, BAPTIST church. downtown in
Cincinnati vas IN despair until It became
INSTITUTIONAL now i, il among The Queen
'iiys ecclesiastical leaders. Win nina
bullilnss which art kept open day and
rish'. II holds over eighty services every
"ers. nearly q thousand girls attend IL
s"ten "iug classes. ard about half hat
number ~ boys ana girls receive free sing
'-+ IN ~ ll.i'f UNI
Statistics collected IN 400 hy Or Josiah
Strong. president Of the American lnsti-
tue Of Social Service. show that. all
other things being equal. the institutional
chN''h increases In membership much
faster man i.s old line sister. ~ ;sat
iiin' Two OF tho twenty-three churches In
the Miami Association Of ONO were ins-i-
tuuonal. Botn arc downtown In Cincin-
natl the hardest sor, OF field for a church
70 Work IN sun. 3e Of the 30 additions
- all TIE churches OF tho association wer.
20 tn' t"o institutional churches. The
gam or thss. TWO churches over their
-osses. which were naturally heavy. owing
% removals to tho suburbs. was Isl. Tn
associations total gain over the losses
va III. 1t appears. therefore" said Dr.
strong, that without these TWO churches
the membership OF the association would
nave been smaller by four at the end OF
the Year than IL was a. the beginning.
In" churches In New York tina, show
the largest uniform growth are those
winch are most eXtersively engaged in IN
stitutional ork-S st. Barthoiomew'e. ST.
Tcorse's. Grace. the West End Presby,e-
ran. among others. Six years ago liz OF
IN. as Protestant churches in old New
iork were Institutional in whole or In
part The number has undoubtedly IN
creased materially in the last Ave years.
oIt not all the churches SO working care
10 be considered as Institutional churches
NeV"rtheless. and whatever their aversion
70 the classified ton. that Is their work
more or less. and in most cases II, has
oeen noticeable tina, following the aaop-
ton OF the new methods. church enbe
snip has increased. and ,he chu-ch's hold
on is neishhorhood and It's l.spec-
strengthened.
during the frs; years OF the rev kind
~ church ths Congregational denonina-
uoh isa IN the movement. a few wears
ago ms distinction belonged to .he Prot
'sfan' Episcopal church. n many quarters
pohuiariy supposed 10 hold itself aloof
rom the masses. The institutional
church < nov found IN p-articallv 90,
denomination. Zig and little. and as IN.
statistics Q, its spread in New York cit,
H4l'at' lt IS the church militant. tho one
Win a re;narkabi@ growth s,ll before II.
The New Kind Of Preacher.
"iin me institutional church has cone
= d Iislnctiy new kind Of preacher. Be
ioHe IN. days OF is multifarious activities.
n AMERICAN university got along very
well with a scholar for president. Nova
DAYS. II a university is to go forward row
year 70 year II IS absolutely essential ma,
~ nave an able executive. a shrewd bust
ness man. at its head-and lucky ana ~
.Stpucna! IS that university whose che,
business man IS also its first scholar.
50 With the infitutional church Ubile
- mn i llIsTs-'e I 1"1N a
IN 'hH moral third Of iis members. then me
man for is pulpit was a Theological ora
.''' an 'XTouNder Of the Bibles moral
laws Here Is ST. bartholomew with
upward or 20 meetings. classes. services
ana so on. a week. Is it conceivable that a
man trained for the pulpit oratory only
could run a complicated and enormous .
safizat.on. keep all tho various Wheels
smoothly. prod here. check thor.
the psychological moment. de,errnin.
'ar-reaching policies. appropriate large
sums of money. be president. OF this c,,ih
ana that school? No: 1t takes a man with
serone aoiiitE as organizer. executive
fnancier and diplomat TO be AT tho ha.d
OIL an institutional church.
Nor mus. - new kind of nre,ch.r
inc sort Of a man who will try IN do all
me work. Around him he must eathe- a.,
able and carefully selected stan a, ne.
sistants. clerical. medical and Law. and he
must devote the greater part of his time n
them in their stated taat, rh.
will keep him busy. That broke dor,, Nc.
Rainsford In 1872. and again last wear. ana
'ecently, because of overwort. he Vas
'ompeiled TO resign as rector he church
"nich he rescued from ar -ccle,is .,icai
grave in the early eighties.
the Matter with the un;x...;.x
Church,
Broad and sturdy mus, be the new kind
~ preachers shoulders. and broad ana
1eep MS understanding OF and ympathies
Tor his fellow mans wants. phy..callv
morally. Only such a man ia
III 10 be al the head of a university
church. And. by the bye. is not tina, des-
'snation-university ~church-more apnro-
than the ono NE havc become a..
to using all these twenty-odd
years agone?
Cir! Champion in Blind rvpewr;&;c.
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