Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-04
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Plant Of a MuzxIed Minister

Plant Of MuzzIed Minister.
a minister in Kansas declares that
one in his profession "can not lead an
honest life in this age" SO the secular
press report him, and, as an alterna-
tive, he has chosen to earn liying as
a street car conductor The case is
not very novel, points out The Stand
ard, but the way in which the indict-
ment is drawn" arrests attention. "This
latest protestant against the bondage
of the pulpit does not seem ITO have any
complaint as to theological restrdc-
tions," but "lais trouble Is that he Is
not allowed to tell people Of their sins"
The Standard observes:
"He says that if the minister
breaches the truth he will be con-
demning the lives Of most of his con-
gregation and offending them. So he
has become a street car conductor,
where, according to his theory, nobody
can criticize me-
eff the poor, misguided man imagines
that on the street car he has found
some safe and quiet spot where critics
are unknown, experience will compel
him to revise his thinking. The only
way to escape from the censorship Of
the public is to die, and even that Is
not always thoroughly effective. BY
the time he has failed to let a passen-
ger off at the right corner, or refused
to honor an outlawed transfer, or done
any of the innumerable things by
which it is possible to arouse the
wrath of irascible passengers, he may
wish that he We're back in his pulpit.
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ductor of a street car is not entirely
beyond the reach of temptation. 1t has
even been limited that some of them
yield to temptation and knock down
la fare now and then.
Filtration.
ut is a long distance from fiirta-
ton on the corner Of State and Adams
streets to what has become Infamous
at Newport and on the Riviera, but He
who looks down from heaven has given
but one name to the whole road, and
that name is destruction. When fir
tation becomes less common, popular
and Fashionable, the number of divorces
and blasted homes will diminish"
That was Rev. Frederick E. Hopkins
introduction to his sermon in the Pill
grim Congregational church which, in
part. was as follows:
Filtration is the cause of our social
evil. Ut undermines the home, 1t makes
marriage look like a failure. The
rapidly increasing number of women
who drink and smoke in fashionable
restaurants shows where stations or
the route are located and the men il,
the big. swift touring cars accomplish
the res. of the trip with nerciless brev-
| ity, but leave behind the fumes OF q
scandal that fill the land.
I'm respect OF fhis evil, as of al
! others, we need to remember that frs
steps are the dangerous steps, frs
compromises the dangerous compro-
misses. We are often asked: Can
dance. can l play cards, can / go tc
the theater. can take a glass OF wine ?
And our answer is, not a dogmatic and
| positive no, but the question, What is
/ safe for you"
/ When men and women are lettering
about thru life wondering what they
will do next. a serpent not far away is
apt to lift its head and sight the bird
ent hour snakes have loved Eve in q
snakes way. Samson has lied ane
ioked with Delilah, Sapho has lovet
the young student, as the devil love:
the world.
1T is love with the most beautiful
face you ever saw. 1t Is a love will
the most attractive personality 70,
| have ever known. 1t is a love will
what is called temperament, you know
makes a lie sound better than thu
truth. 1t can make the red-headed
black faced Cleopatra look so fascin-
ating that the great Marc Antony /!
content to be dragged behind her barge
like a dead fish.
The love of the fIirt Is a love tina
makes men and women forget thei
honor. their vows, their ambitions
their talents, their fathers and moth
ers, husbands and wives, and all thu
great hopes of time and eternity. TIL
first steps may lead down the marble
steps of palace Of pleasure. Blu
look at the end"