Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-08


could say and used to say what Eng
land ought to do
The Bible, Hammer.
The bible is Gods mighty hammer
There is nothing too hard for Il to
break. The rock OF inf1delity has been
shattered to pieces by its sledge ham
mer strokes The hammer Of Gods
word has always had foes multitudin-
Gus. They have been thick in every
age. Education in the public school
system Of our country has turned It's
back apparently upon this wonderful
hammer against error. Never fesr, II
Will Triumph ---'-'-----
Martin Luther was cognizant that the
bible was lame in its influence. None
welded the hammer. A church tainted
with evil was lying supinely on It's back.
The arm Of ancient theology had lost
its cunning. The battle was lost Then
came the flash Of a new experience into
the soul Of the Dutch monk Of Ger
many. Soon the ring Of the old ham,
mer of truth smashed the granite
mountain Of Journalism. How its shout
OF victory thundered thru the father
land! "Is not My word like hammer
that hreaketh the rock in pieces"
The bible will wear out all the anvfls
Of the foe. Beat them into dust. then
with the breath Of the Spirit blow
them into oblivion No weapon against
the power Of evil has such authority
as the word Of God. It shows 1t in be-
coming the chief ingredients in liter
AZURE. art. history and the genius Of
mechanics. These are all agencies OF
civilization, born Of the authority OF
Him. Whom 1t was said, without Him
was not anything made that was made"
Don't Want Rubbsrneoks
The new and enlarged church that
DR.. Aked hoped to build and without
which he felt his work to be Intellectual,
was not wanted by a majority OF his
trustees. One of his deacons Mr.. John
IP. Elder. Is reported to have said,
speaking for the trustees:
1--WE are not sure that we want
huge auditorium, filled with rambling
religious rubber-necks, and that's
about what 1t means to have great
church and q pulpit orator"
This blunt statement expresses what
the New York Tribune thinks "is no
doubt the way 1t strikes many regular
churchgoers who want to worship in
peace and dignity. out Of the way Of
sensation and free from the excitement
Of great things" It adds:
such persons naturally shrink from
going to sit at a service in q crowd,
as Mr. Elder described it Composed of
young m en- VINO take their girls to hear
a popular preacher one Sunday
ana to a moving picture show
the next No particular attention has
been paid to It before. To the public
! a crowd ait a church IL = crowd, ard
| It has not stopped to analyze 1t ana
consider whether or not 1t was made
up Of rambling religious rubber-necks.'
But the attitude OF worshiper who
prefers to be in the spotlight IL worth
considering.
HE has an important factor work
ing on his side. as the discussion over
the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
shows, namely. the cost Of great
church in this city. Such church
must be below Central Park, or 1t be-
comes mere neighborhood church, and
| It must be in the Fifth avenue district.
But there the cost IL virtually prohibi-
| tive. A great church thus placed, as
the present discussion has brought out,
would cost about 100000, large
sum to invest for the doubtful advan-
tage of popularity and at the hazard OF
not always possessing popular
preacher"
II he goes to San Francisco Or. Aked
Will adapt his ministry to = Congrssa-
tional pulpit. The change Of dsnomin-
alton - also feature Of DR.. Jewett's
new IaborS. So The Episcopal Record
|er's comment upon the frasflity Of de-
Inominational barriers - pertinent to
both.
aIt registers a great change in
Thought concerning these matters DR.
Jewett was brought up q ConGreSa-
/ tionalist, and has for several years
ImInlstered to one Of the lArgsss and