Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-01-27

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
things. So much preaching is as
tho the preacher were preaching to
men who lived in Palestine and as
tho he had not heard God speak
since they lived. l hope this pull
pit will never be one that is mere
ly a rehearser of what God did for
people who are dead, but one that
will be prophet to the people to-
day.
The pulpit for today must be an
Evangelical Pulpit.
use the word. Evangelical, in
no ecclesiastical sense evangelism
has nothing to do with the theology
man holds or his philosophy of
the Trinity. l use it in its great,
beautiful sense; the passion to save
men from SHINING, believing in the
Life of Jesus as the saving life and
following that life in loving devo-
tion. The day of revivals has not
gone by. Wherever there is a true
evangelical note in the pulpit, a
Divine desire to lead men to devel-
op the beauty of Christ's character,
there the spirit of Jesus will burn
in the lives of the people. Where
the flame of Christ's love burns in
the pulpit it will glow in the lives
of the congregation. We need a
pulpit that cries with Paul, 20
that l might save some.'' We need
a Church that cannot be patient to
wait for the fulflment of any tradi-
tional view of Christ's coming with
clouds, but labors Increasingly to
see the manifestation Of His Pres
ence in the life of humanity.
The pulpit for today must be an
Ethical Pulpit.
All the corruption that is heinQ
unearthed reflects no great credit
on the pulpit. What this country
needs is a great Gospel ringing in
love accents from every pulpit of
the real brotherhood of man.
have heard people say there is
only one message for the pulpit
Christ and Him crucifed. If they
mean it as Paul meant it. agree.
But do they? Read his wonderful
1epistles and you must conclude no
man ever had a more daring con-
ception of the problems belonging
to religion than Paul. He be.
lieved that religion was not thing
to be limited to some water-tight
compartment of mans intellectual
! nature. He would sweep withir
its majestic circle everything per
tanning to human life-social, pri
vate or national. Now, you ask
should the pulpit for today concern
, itself with secular affairs? Ha
, the pulpit for today any right t.
, concern itself with political affairs
$ It just depends what you mean b.
D political affairs. If by politics yo'
!. mean national Righteousness, tn
uplifting of the poor, the better
4 ment of conditions both for ric
0 and poor, then there is no p'ac
t like the pulpit to deal with polite
r of that description. And the pull
t pits solution would be Christ an
o Him crucified. A preacher is nc
> necessarily politician by protest
. ing against all great social an
q civil wrongs. What was consid
4 cred fitting themes for the Oh
J. Testament prophets of old can hare
J. ly be unworthy of other preacher
g of Righteousness.
l. The need Of the hour is a Candi
9 Pulpit, and we shall gain much
n encouraging and supporting sue
; an one even tho we do not alway
:. endorse this utterances.
'e May the day soon draw mig
"A when no pulpit will compromi.
1t with truth and stoop to win Il
, benediction Of the pew.
l. May the day soon be with 4,
&c when the pulpit shall welcome trut
u from whatsoever direction it m:
" come, and give hospitality to evel
et great and enrolling thought fro
r whatsoever quarter it may trave
n The only remedy my pulpit has
y offer for the worlds ills is Chri
% and Him Crucified, for ! firmly b
+. lieve the life of Jesus is the on
u Life given under heaven wherel
If Society must be saved.