The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-05-25
CHAMPAGNE FEASTs AND CHRIS.
TlANlTY DON'T GO TOGETHER
SAYS SECRETARY.
ATTACKS UNIVERSITIES
Presbyterian Says There Is Too Little
Christianity in the Homes and That
State Universities Are GodIess-De-
clares Family Affairs Are Not Raised
Over Persian Rugs.

Denver May 24.-"Grace is not US
! ually said over champagne and lob
| ster a Ia Newberg"
Family affairs are not raised over
Persian rugs"
students for the ministry do not as
a rule get their early training by run
| ming steam yachts
Most of us preachers come Of
humble beginnings
These epigrams from a 'fledgling
secretary as he termed himself,
| caused the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church, as one promi-
nent divine said, 'to sit up and take
, notice today. The speaker was DR..
Joseph w. Cochran, secretary of the
Presbyterian board of education. DR..
Cochran. who is from Philadelphia,
spoke in the afternoon on the report
of the board of education, which de-
plored in unmistakable terms the lack
of recruits to the ministry. The re-
port was read by DR.. Edgar p. Hill
of Chicago, who stirred the assembly
to high pitch by his word picture
of the ignorance among immigrants
due. he said, to the fact that no
Protestant denomination, and surely
not the Presbyterian, had taken the
trouble to stir up a sufficient number
OF recruits to work among these
people.
The demand for more ministers was
then taken up by DR.. Cochran.
why can't we get the young men
to preach?" he asked. .I'll tell YOU
In the first place, there is but little
Christianity in the home. 1T there is
any, it is gone by the time the young
man is ready for an education.
Does he go for his education to
a Christian school? A Presbyterian
school No. He goes to a goddess
state university and when he returns
to his home town he puts religion at
low ebb. And if you ministers find
your churches at low ebb, do you
know where to place the blame? This
young man has been educated where
there is no Christianity.
'"rhe need of this board of Hduca-
tion is not more money. but more
men. These young men must be taken
in hand when they are ready for an
education. They must be started
right. Now, We cannot Christianize
these state universities, but we can
put a shepherd in charge of the flock
and in this way keep boys in the
flock. although they are being edu-
Gated at goddess schools
DR.. Cochran urged that Sunday
school teachers put before the boys
the ministry as a career
The report of the committee urged
an rdenominational immigration
board to work among immigrants. It
urged also that evangelistic work be
carried on in the native tongues of
the immigrants and for this purpose
it is strongly suggested that ministers
and eyangelists be trained in theologi-
cal schools where they may become
proficient in tongues that will enable
them to work among foreigners. Two
German theological schools were in
dcrsed
Lack of Funds.
Lack of funds WIS the principal
cry of the American Tract society
and the board of freedmen in reports
Dir. Judson Swift of New
York, secretary of the tract society,
said the society could do five times
as much work with twice as much
money as it received now
Even the board of foreign missions
has come to u.s." he said. THE board
wants us to print an arithmetic for
the people Of Uganda. I suppose the
people of Uganda want to compute
the number Of lions, tigers and gil
raffes slain by our former beloved
president
Rev. r. Mayer of Tennessee and
Rev. James G. Walker of Green's
boro, N. c., both negroes, said that
many negro parishes in the south are
self supporting.
There was popular meeting to-
night in Central Presbyterian church
in behalf Of the freedmen movement,
at which a number of negro ministers