The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-29
EDITORIAL
An Unwarranted Attack.

An OAW6 0As0A EAss0Sn
4hs Times Dispatch Of Monday, March 2sth, con
Med an amazing criticism upon the ministr,
v tie city Of Richmond Under the heading
: How Would This Dor that paper said:
sAfter the ministers get through with
M 1Aeir special engagements to preach about
mis-, that and the other question OF pub
81 lie health and civic obligations, and after
all the Sundays which have been filed
with engagements of one sort and another
have been discharged, how would il do il
occasionally there should be word or
two about the Gospel and little time be
devoted to the plain old-fashioned worship
Of the Lord God Almighty What great
thing it would be for Richmond If there
could be here Sunday after Sunday the
sort of preaching Moses D. Hoge and John
A. Broadus didl
Really, we believe that men and wo-
a. men would come hundreds of miles to
- hear it. That was the Way it happened
about nineteen hundred years ago. "All
- the people came unto Him; and lie sat
down and taught them and great multi
tudes followed Him. - He coudn t get away
from them, and among other things He
sHiu. lie tHAt euteTttIf not ny Cic uooi
into the fold of the sheep but climbeth
up some other way, the same is thief
and a robber" There was little or no
machinery in His day. He was never
known to set apart days and times for
doing this, that or the other thing His
command to His disciples was to preach
the Gospel"
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What does the Times Dispatch know of tn
preaching in the city of Richmondf How man
bf The nearly one hundred churches have bee
visited by the editor of that paperi BY wha
utandard does it measure the gospel quality o
sermons of the ministers of Richmond, and VIII
does it write .tIchahod" over the pulpits of al
he churches because Moses d. Hoge and John a
Rr0adus are more among us?
What is the explanation of this slanderous al
Eack upon the preachers of Richmondf How ca
he Times Dispatch assert that there has not bee
z word or two about the gospel and little tim
devnted to the plain d-fashioned worship OF
Lord God Almighty''f As a matter of fact tn
lndlth of March has been marked, in an unusua
askree, by the preaching of the simple gospel. A.
" Methodist churches in the city have been hold
|hg revival meetings. several of the Baptis
ehnrches have had special services and the Epis
c0pai churches have held their Lenten services
But the Supreme" in Virginia sends this baseles
criticism of our ministry throughout the State ant
Y be read by exchanges throughout tho country
But this self-appointed critic does not stop there
he Tugs in the word of God in his light and hppan
gtyIe which borders closely upon sacrilege ant
the ministry of Richmond to the thieve
md robbers who came not in by the door, bu
climbed mp some other way into the sheepfod
a An explanation of this unwarranted attack
due to the ministers of the city and to the cor
gregations to which they minister. While Nose
d. IIoge and John A. Broadus are no longer liy
Ing there are many men in the pulpits Of Rich
Inond who preach as pure gospel as ever was pre-
rlained by these famous men.