The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-26
indianapolis Ministers Take a
Fall Out of Him for Utter
ances at State Charities
Convention.
MARSHALL TOOK FALL
OUT STATE CHURCHES
Said They Were Not Enough
Interested in Charity and
There Was Need of "Old"
Kind of Religion.
palladium Specially

Indianapolis, Oct. 26-Governor
Marshall was Jumped on" by the
Methodist Ministers association of
Indianapolis yesterday, and resolu-
tions were adopted denouncing him
for his utterances at the meeting OF
the state charities convention at Co.
lumbus, Sunday. The governor said
in his address at Columbus that the
churches were not doing their share
in maintaining the charitable institu-
tions of the state and in doing the
charitable work. He also declared
that there is a need for more of the
old fashioned kind of religion in the
churches that exists today. He went
further and said that it depended
largely on the cut of her dress and the
style of her hat whether a woman
can get into a church nowadays.
These and lot of other things
which the governor said stirred up
the Methodist ministers, and when
they held their weekly meeting yes
terday the Rev. Joshua Stansfield,
pastor of the Meridian Street Meth
odist church, the most fashionable
church in the city, came in with
set of resolutions denouncing the ut
terances of the governor.
Ministers Answers.
The resolutions point out that the
colleges. except state institutions, are
manned and supported by Christian
people: that the hospitals and homes
for destitute children and other UNI
fortunates are manned and maintain
ed by Christians: that the officers
and members of the Y. NJ. c. A. and
Of the Y. w. c. A. are Christian peo-
pie and members of Christian church
es; that the Anti-Saloon league. the
most successful temperance organiza-
| tion in the country, is a combination
of members of all of the Christian
churches, representing and supported
by the churches.
"The power of the church in all
philanthropic, reform, educational and
charitable work of the common
wealths of America" say the resolu-
tions, 'is seen in the personnel of the
men and women who are the strength
of such organizations. To censure as
| Governor Marshall is reported to have
done the churches of the state for
shifting the burden of uplifting hu-
manity to the shoulders Of the state,
instead of bearing it themselves, or.
at least, of assisting in bearing it, is
reflection on the Christian activi.
ties of the Christian men and women,
members of churches in Indiana. who
constitute eight-tenths of the workers
in the charitable and philanthropic
work of our state. We submit. furth.
er, that the reason why, as the gov.
ernor stated, yesterday. the system OF
benevolence in Indiana is the best in
the Union was not alone because
the states benevolent and penal insti
tutions were in the main nonpartisan
but rather because the leaders and
workers in benevolent, reform and
charitable work throughout the state
are Christian men and women and
members of churches.
| Won't Believe Them.
1.-The worst reported utterances ol
this address of our governor we will
mot repeat, for We believe they are
surely incorrect, but that the trend
of the earnest address was seemingly
an arraignment Of the churches il
most evident and we much regret the
unprecedented and unwarrantable
statements against the church and its
membership at such a time and place
where the preponderance, if not the
unit, of delegates and workers ART
members of some Christian church"
I The resolutions were signed by the
Rev. Joshua Stansfield. the Rev. Al
bert Hurlstone and the Rev. George
ID. Wolfe. The Introduction of The
resolutions caused an uproar In thu
meeting. and several ministers coun
: seled against their adoption, but the!
|. went through with only four or fiv.
dissenting votes.