The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-10-05

measure. changed the conditions OF hte' but not
the responsibility of the average man. Inc Fro-
testant church have not yet got the range Oh Vne
democracy and their messages have not YET COM
passed the problems of the organized LIE Oh the
enfranchised masses
Not until Professionalism appreciates more AIDE
ouately. and at first hand the social SITUATION
will # be alive to the social, mental and physical
needs of the people We see no hope that 1T Will
ever reach this plane of appreciation for 1t IS want
inc in the essential elements of unity and authority
without which there can be no sustained and con-
eerted action house divided against itself can
not stand and the increasing divisions of the great
Protestant society make it plain to every thought
full mind that the hope of the bishop can never be
realized. All the same, there are men in the Pro
testant ministry and in the membership Of the
churches who are neither Indifferent uniformed
and who give themselves with an insight born of
sympathy and an unreserve made strong by sense
Of duty to the lettering of the conditions of labor
and to the larger solution of the complex social
problems
Were it not for such men the industrial revolu-
ton might have assumed more menacing mien
and because of them Protestant Christianity has
been saved from much uuIIllIIdOlOAi a. III
of the new democracy.
But that is not enough. If Professionalism would
make good it's claim and carry out its promises, it
must bring its preachers into lne understand what
is happening among its people and relate itself
adequately, vitality, to the real needs OF It's own
world The UNCONVENTIONAL colleges for the train
ing of the ministry are but poorly equipped for
the study of social phenomena, the theological
course does not touch the principles and essential
data of social life and the average preacher or
clergyman when he ventures to speak on economic
or social subjects, in many concrete instance IS
saved from bungling by his good sense rather than
by his trained intelligence. To send young men
into pulpits and unto public platforms without ade
quate knowledge of the great industrial and social
problems, without knowledge of the minds OF the
masses, and of the successes and failures of past
endeavor is to court defeat. If the Protestant
churches do not know what they ought to do, and
have no notion of how they ought to begin, then
any attempt on their part to solve the social prob
lem will only reflect discredit on themselves and
bring no real help to the cause they would serve.
1t is so easy for Bishop Potter, indeed for
that matter for any glib talker to find fault with
the ministers of the churches for not identifying
themselves more prominently with the great indus
trial. economic and social issues of the day. but
when the reverend gentlemen are not armed for
the fray they do well not to be in the field.
The bishop is of the opinion that in every sem
mary for the training of young for the minis
try there ought be established chair of socioogA
Quite right, but all the chairs of sociology in the
world will never raise young men to the apprehen-
sion of the needs of the people or the causes of
the discomfort of the masses. The minister must
go down the people, talk with them, chat
with them, and if he uses tobacco, even smoke
pipe with them, till they begin to have friendly
feeling for him. Then little by little, if he be
manly man. he wins their confidence and begins to
learn something of their thoughts their trials their
sins and weaknesses and their inner life. No cler-
ical popinjay, no nanby-pamby doctor of divinity,
no milk and water psalm singer is suited for this
kind of work. Side by side with the bishops chair
of sociology there must be established chair of
manliness without which the study of sociology
will accomplish little. The old Romans understood
this when they chisseled the main entrance to
the temple of Apollo, "Estovir"-be a man. With
piety, clean living and manliness the influence of
the minister on his people will be as the sling of
David against the Goliath of the iniquty of revolu-
tionary error. Without manliness the minister, go
matter how well equipped educationaly. will be as
the soldier in a skirmish without his oun