Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-04-08
SUNDAY PAPERS
GIVEN KNOCK
Bishop William r. Anderson Declares
The Ministry is Not An Asylum
For Weas<iings.

Washington, April 1.-The Sunday
newspaper was denounced as deadly
foe OF the modern church by Rev w.
l. McKenney, of Washington, in Vi
yitriolic arrangement before the Lay
mems Association meeting in Douglas
Church yesterday afternoon. In terms
consistently caustic Mr.. McKenney
characterized the Sunday paper as
Infamous and ubiquitous" in it's rival
r. Of the church and Sunday school.
The delegates to the meeting were
astounded by the nature Of Mr. Nc
Kenney's address, which, coming un-
heralded, was first greeted with con
fused silence and afterward with APP
plause.
Mr.. McKenney was one Ct the min
listers representing the Baltimore Con
ference 10 greet the Layman's Asso-
cation at the afternoon meeting.
Launching into discussion of the rel
alive positions occupied in the church
by the clergy and laity and the re
spective duties which should be I'M
fringed up by neither, Mr. McKenney
began an exposition of the greatest
evils encountered i'm church work.
Suddenly assuming a dramatic att
tude. he declared the present-day
church was called upon to meet a
sharper competition than ever before
in the Sunday newspaper.
p.
nous and iniqHtous,' said Mr.. McKin-
ney ut constitutes the one fatal foe
10 the church 10 be encountered in
this latter day, and is even worse than
the saloon. 1t holds an advantage
ever the grogshop because the law at
least makes a pretease of closing the
saloon, while the Sunday newspaper
Is not only permitted but encouraged.
It sends little children forth in the
morning before dawn to draw a small
livelihood in pennies from the sale OF
this pernicious publication. The fam
ily man, worn out by his bbors of the
day before, sinks into chair with the
morning paper forgetful of his church.
can put forth has half the attraction
for him that his Sunday paper has. II
is slowly drawing men from their
pews, where they formerly sat Sunday
after Sunday, content to hear the
v ord preached. Now they have ac-
quired the Sunday paper habit, and
they can no longer be reached / want
every man in this congregation to con-
stitute himself a committee to fight
this growing evil that strikes at the
heart of the church system"
Mr.. Mckinney further asserted that
the need of the present-day church
was laity to hold the members OF the
congregation rather than the clergy to
talk to Rev. joel Brown who also out
lined the relation of the clergy and
the laity to the church body
Strong Men Needed BY Church.
That the ministry is am asylum for
the weakling was denied by Bishop
William f. Anderson at the morning
OF the conference. n his adj
dress to seven candidates for admis-
sion to the conference. Bishop Ander-
son declared the ministry must have
strong men to do it's work; men who
are not afraid of hardships and who
we're thorough and original in their
wrrk
An attempt TO have every member of
the conference pledge himself in sup
port Of the $4,000 fund needed for the
addition to Andrew Carnegies gift of
$4,000 for the Morgan College Balti-
mere, failed The Carnegie gift car
ries the provision that $4,000 must
also be raised by the conference. Five
thousand dollars is still lacking
At the might session a meeting Of
the Board of Conference Claimants
and the Preachers Aid Society was
held.