Putnam patriot., 1910-11-18

millionaire who spins to the church in an automobile, joins loudly in the psalms and hymns, and then on Mon. day morning lines his pocket and the pockets of his fellow-cnpitalists with a million dollars of extra stock dividends and adds not one red cent, not one bloody red cent, io the wages of his poor workingmeni We preachers tn our sermons are not talking about the same things that the man on the street talks about: we are not answering the practical question which he is asking; and that k the reason that the man tr the street Is less and lesx to be found within our church vestibnIes. If It Is the mission of the church to invade the world and dominate it with the ideals of Jesus, we must confess that her mission is far from accomplish ment.
 So then for our first proposition viz: that ns an army of invasion the church is not winning today any very signal victories over the world. l have tried to paint the picture tn black colors, too black perhaps; but the first step in a forward journey Is to wake out Of sleep, and the church needs to be aroused to . sense Of the peril confront ing her. The other two propositions of the sermon may De touched upon more briefly.
 The second proposition is To the ef- feet that the church, which today is busy with garrison duty much more than with cfieetnai aggressive attacks upon unfightw rongness, began its ea. rcer as spiritual army Of finyasion, and was vital and mighty so long as II mixed with life and tried to solve its problems. Not to mention Jesus the founder Of the faith look at the first disciples. What mad unconventional, unorthodox men they wefe' Here was . beautifully organized, dtvinely ordained Jewish church Religion was graceful, esthetic, intellectual. The saints were properly fenced off from the sinners, the chosen Of God were wisely quaraniined from the Gen. tiles and the dignity of immemorini tradition gave authority to the holy beherts of the priest and the rabbi. And then came these peslilentlai fei- lows who had studied with the Cali lesan carpenter, men of no education os weight or wealth; and with as little ado = t they were fieeking some dust from the sleeve of their garments they smashed down every fence of separn- ton, they broke through every iaw of quarantine, they cast defiance in the face of every tradition and went straight to the heart Of the business. That business as they conceived it, was to gel next to the soul which needed salvation. Our New Texiamenfs are not written In terms of modern life, eEse we should be startled much more than we are. The gospels relate how these first disciples were friends of pubIiesns and sinners, went in to est with the Gentlies. welcomed repent ant women into their band. Trans; lated into modern conditions and into newspaper style these experiences of the first preachers and the comments upon them would probably sound so unex peeted ax b be called news.n
 They would read somewhat In this wise Tine Reverend Peter Efnext, the weIlknown pastor of the Cana Congfe- gationai church was ot,nerved by oar reporter last evening standing at the bar of Mike Rallesty's Rediight Ssi00n. He seemed Q be tho center q the crowd and we cougsatula1e hks chuseh on having e demoesa1te cd bfoo6' minded peetef- WN nelfeod, hou'