Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-30

 that ministers are required to meet $5 conditions with $1 pay.
 "The dead past is dead. A book ol ten years old is out of date, as are tools, instruments and implements Then neither should the church use Sixteenth Century methods and creeds for Twentieth Century men. This is |foolshness.
 "Cold, bald facts are terribly stub born things. It must be admitted that the modern church as well as the an- cient is a failure. Many there are, ministers and laymen, who are so . blinded to conditions by their own lit tie world of exceedingly small vision and ephemeral success that they will not admit it, but this does not alter the facts.
 Besides these evidences of failure there is dissension and strife in the church itself Not only are there too many different denominations, with ltheir nonessential differences, and con- |sequently poorly equipped plants, in- adequate to the demands of the hour, but it is the exception to find a church which is free from divisions and strifes in the local organization. Seven promi- nent pastors of aggressive churches have recently changed pastorates in St. Louis, and the new pastor has had to come into church of contention and bitterness.
 "All men need to know Christ to whom all life is sacred. He walked among men, the humble, the lowly men, while on earth to help them, and he walks among them today k "He is better known to some in the dusty din of the dirty factory than to some oYers, .savages In silk and satin, who sometimes sanctimoniously sit in the cuhioned seats of the synagogue on the Sabbath. It's useless to legis- late against great growing evils unless you create new desires and holier impulses, hungers for the things that are righteous.
 "There must be new regard for one moral code. No Christian can have a Sunday or church creed, home creed, and a downtown code. He cannot be one kind of man as a churchman and another as director in his corpora tion.
 eff in these things the men and wo- men who are in our churches will CO., operate, the day is not distant when the sick will be healed, the poor evan gelized, the hungry fed; men will cease to regard life cheaper than divi- dends, and they will be found protect ing Workingmen from the deadly ma chinery, children from the death of factories, and their competitors from starvation. They will realize that it's no use to starve orphans to endoW ed ucational institutions, for there will be no children to educate if methods of the irreligious are to have sway.
 Dr. Ecob took as the topic of his farewell sermon the subject, "The Min lister of Today" and as his text Ma.- thew XI:1S7: We have piped unto yoI and ye have not danced. We have mourned unto You and ye have not lamented.''
 T propose to speak with perfect simplicity and plainness. Every de- nominational conflict. every heresy trial, every parish scandal, every treacherous attack upon pastor $ invariably justified and sanctified by the worn out plea, for the good of the church. Is it not time that some voice were lifted up for the good ot tn ministry?
 Many ministers are deeply resent ing the demand of the church fo.' simply neutral, decorative ministry ministry punctilous, ministry that tiptoes gently and graciously at o. clock teas and smiles benignly at bridge whist tables-ministry whose pulpit utterances have the quality of what is known by country people as 1 fox fire,' pale, phosphorescent glimmer, the product of decayed wood.
 Many churches, especially those called important, want in the pulpit
 cnly this dim, lambent, innocuous light, the product of venerable de- cayed thought.
 Another question respecting min listers is that of salary. The average man, without an independent income has no business in Protestant pull pit. The average wage of the minis ter is below that of day laborer Yet a laborer can live in such house as he pleases, and fix the scale or ms household expenses. But for min