Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-09

voluntarily made. spend no time i,
the attempt to secure worthless paper.
You will realize that this method i
laborious, slow and expensive, but
believe it will prove most satisfactory.
Il am sure you will pardon me if
seem to express too positive an opinion
as to the possibilities of our enterprise
am fully persuaded that the time j:
suspicious for a great forward move
mcnt, and that we could with perfect
safety very largely increase our csti
mate of the amount to be raised. Oul
laity look to II, ior leadership. optimism
and faith and they nave a right to dc
so. They will follow where we lead
Ii we could. we could secure S25",Wn
The income from this iurd. invested at
:, per cent, increased by $50" from
other sources. "uld provide 500 per
year for each Of thirty >upcrannuatcs.
! II have been i'll doubt as to what
, recommendation to make. ! have fin
j ally decided to make none, but | do
! feel ii incumbent upon me to express
! my Judgment
"Whcr declared. after being a montl,
! in the field, that We should have aimed
at $loo,Mm rather than at $4,000, the
: Statement, was met by a storm of pro-
j test. Events have justified my position.
! \ fund of $2:,".'H"' III the supcrann,atc
TREASURY would make the Methodist
! church of North Dakota ore Of the
! most effective religious organizations III
\mrrica
Il am no, i dreamer am not look
| ing fer (; jnt nor trying IL hold one.
| am simply plain Mc,h"di>, preacher
| who has had a Vision and believes he
should speak We hear iii our day
much talk Of spiritual apathy and the
need OF revival; but nor too much. |
believe | know how 10 ensure a great
spiritual awakening on every charge in
North Dakota.
If we would teach our people to
honor the Lord with their substance
and the first fruits OF all their increase,
they would soon pay the deb, on every
church: repair every par>onage: increase
the pastors salary or every field and
nay it regularly: NEE, every benevo-
lcrcc in full. and do nunbrrlcsS other
things with that tenth which is holy
unto the Lord
"'llen. unless the word of God is
false. the windows of heaven would be
opened up, and 50 great blessing pour
ed out that there would not be room
enough to receive it, Then our people
would find it 4 JOY and privilege to
serve God with such active zeal that
Pentecost would be daily incident
and spiritual, refreshing and contnu-
Gus experience.
1.-The work now being done for the
conference claimants throughout our de-
nomination will awaken the church to
the absolute need of more liberal
support of the ministry Open the eyes
of those who hitherto have mistakenly
supposed that generous provision had
already been made for the support of
our s,1perannuatc>. Young mcr called
of God to preach will not. as often
heretofore, hesitate and sometimes re-
fuse to answer that call because of the
almost inevitable certainty of an old age
Of ,mdescrved and bitter perjury. 1t
will remove long standing rcproach
Frequently expressed against our hclov-
ed church, and increase the interest of
thoughtful people in the welfare OF the
cause for which the church stands. 1t
will relieve the mind of the pastor and
his wife of gloomy forehodngs caused
by the paralyzing fear of an old age of
pitablc dependency.
"Io work for ones board and clothes
is the very bottom run i'll the scale
of wages, yet the church, in many
places, unhcstitatingly demands that of
her minister's and occasionally a Meth
odist so far forgets himself as to Join
with outsiders in grudging them even
that No worthy man with enough
sense to preach ever enters our minis
try for the sake Of the salary. His
chief remuneration is not to be COM
nuted in dollars and cents, but is to be
reckoncd in terms of love and gratitude
entertained toward him by those whom
he has served. 1t will provoke spirit
of fair play, encourage the practice OF
generosity, and strengthen every bencv-
olencc Of the church.
Giving is a habit, liberality is GUS
tom, and by no means the least profit
of our work will be realized by those
who have contributed most to our fund.
| conscicntiously believe that every man
whom | have induced to contribute to
our cause owes us debt of gratitude
because his gift has placed him in line
for blessing.
AS a result of the work now being
done, those men who in the days of
their youth answered the divine call
for volunteers and enlisted for life I'M
der the banner of the Great King; those
men who have lived on short rations
and half pay; those men who have ev-
erywhere held the fort and have I'M
hesitatingly obeyed the orders of the
Great Commander; those men who have
gone on forced marches and led many
forlorn hope and a many a victorious
charge against the Prince of the Power
of the Air; those men, secure from an
old age of poverty and pitiable depend
ency, and freed from the paralyzing and
ever present danger of leaving wife and
children in restitution, will take on new
hope, fresh courage, and added useful
ness, so that their declining years will
be crowned with becoming dignity
and filled with a sense of peace and
gladness and a fullness of JOY in the
Lord, so that, like David when they
have served their generation, by the will
of God, they shall fall asleep.
81 forsce but one real danger, one