Putnam patriot., 1908-10-16
CLERGY INDORSE ThF1
Class Hin as Highest Type oi
 Christian Gentleman.
FEEoyEaT HIS HEADQUARTERS

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 ps.iiean fsenaiaee.
 "Beennsa Ae is the highest type pi
 tLe ehI.59IlH gentleman.
 Ials is the way iB which heard
 fIse pastor Gf a Mefhedist church iH
 southern Illinois end an argument ssitb
 q layman on tue train coming over
 here from St. Louis. says tipe Wash
 inglon correspondent of the St. Louis
 Globe Democrat in dispatch to his
 paper from Cincinnati The dispatch
 continues The layman. paying due re.
 spect to tine cloth of his oppoDeat. was
 trying to convince him that he should
 not support Mir Taft for the presi-
 dency and instead should vote for bis
 Democratic opponent The ehurchmaB
 defended lie principles Of the Repub- Ii1an party and. as indicated, defended the man for whom he said he expected h vote from his personal standpoint of a ehurchman, because he is the high, est type If Christian gentleman it gave me a new idea about MT. Taft. II seemed to answer some of the criticisms l had heard of the Eepub- lican candidate and his creed In re cent years the Democratic candidate has infeflarded his well paId chau- tauqua lectures with Sunday sermons before religious and yemirellgi0us so- eieties ft seems thht he has made 1 the most of this influence In this cam | palgu. and l WIS curious 10 discover on my arrival here whether there was support from the church and semi
 religious elements lh the country for
 the Republican nominee
 My arrlfal In this connection eonld l not have been Letter timed As I en= | tered the ofilre of Nr Tafts private
 secretary FalIny saW Bishop ] C. l fartztti of The Methodist Episcopal 1 church emerging from conference with Mir 1Hff Tine hishHp knew. l has episcopal spPcff ision over the york of hs great church In Africa. l tfe hHs been go engaged for the past 1 tNehe Feara and has met and formed
 the acquaintance of many leading men | aot only Iii Africa, but In Europe and | America Ills acquaintance an1 ihfn | ence within tho Methodist church are second td those of few men. Us he was | for fifteen years an officer Of the so 1 ciety which founded and now main | tains sgsi@ of institutions of learn | ing among both white and colored | people In the southern states He came | to inance MT Taft to make speech | in Chicago before Il society of which | the bishops son. Rev. NJ. C. Hartzell. | is pres ident
 II seemed odd to attempt to Inter view ehurehman of his prominence on T political question It the head quarters of the Republican candidate. mt | naked him far hls view of Mir FuH and the support ef him bY Chris Han people lie answered very readily "The American people afe te be con gratulatei upon the fact that whether Nr Tuft or Nr BFsan is elected pres 'Ieni of the nifed States the9 will have maa ai the head If the naiion teha l. moi afAe efean in B9Tai ehafac- ter hut Who9e r..sf and speech ana eA amrle nre uiVa5s for the best ideals
 n our el7tlfaH 4a a8 represented in the feacaag- q f6e ehrl#tian church e The bishop thought for moment and then eortinuct e0n some theoz l0gical points differ from both AS | good Presbyterian suppose Mir Hryau aeseats to the doctrine ef al siae ae5.tt.ss. which teaeh that from all eftfWh Il has beea fixed who should hc snvrd and who should be lost do unt tp read Scriptures Mir. faft. elz'esstaea Is ere ef fhc Fl ward Everett Hale type believing that christ WIS diftnefv perfect man whose preecpf> and ifc on earth are the key tu funu's salvutinn in time and eternity Wlth the church l believe that n that perfect man dwelt the ii vine uatpge"
 Applying his 1lsensslan h a nraeti cal way Biehep llHtzell continued @Nhsh ef tl4ase faep shali sefe far will 4at ee assi.tsA hs thelr reilsioes hellef. bu va8i they are as men and hH taa ttia ale agA palieles they stand fnf ia tAe administration of the government belieYe that h acting unon this view. ns ea American eiti saH l anu m tfrmay @ith the spirit and pnrpese ef tl4e leunerts ot our re- puHle who prt into thc constitution that here shoeld he no religious test ls tn etuHnaeatlons to any office or pub lic treS, under the United States My conviction k that tho future safety of
 the nation depends very largely upon our people needing that constitutional prohibition onr nation owes much In moral character statesmanshlp. lit sratuns. art and religion to those who have not been in strict harmony with some ef the dagmas of the church. | The ,lnNs of the inslnisition arr past"