Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-10-30


Reply to the Aspersions Defamatons and Fanat.
ical Utterances Of Certain Salem Preachers.
Rev. J. Howard Hobbs d. D, dealt with the liquor
problem in sermon at Westminster Church, Utica.
prefaced his remarks by citing facts and fig
ures showing the magnitude of the problem not alone in
Maine, but throughout nation, all tending to show
that it was "more than sneer at and
ignore" Hobbs: "The church
wisely any extreme fanatca position in the
Some may think that a strange thing for minis
ter of the gospel to say ready to stand by it,
| base that statement Christs position He was
charged being guon and ne-bbber. He ig-
nored all such accusations individually and personally
He went right on to drink wine with His friends He
announced that wine should be memorial of His
everIastingly in the church. These things
significant.
CHRIST WAS NO FANATIC.
He wasn fanatic though he followed one in point of
John Baptist an asceic--caustc and spe
cifc in his denuncaion of individual sins But they
gave him short shrift
"Chrst in principle of elf-control-what
is translated temperance If His spirit and
example in force today, there would be
less of a problem in the liquor traffic Thus
the S moi to fight anything fanatca but
work is individual recaming him from in
placing the cepter rule in his hands that he
may than The church should
time hacking at branch of the
of SIM but right the of evil in the ndivid
ual
NOT ONLY EXISTENT EVIL
81 eschew the position of persons who think that
this the only evil in existence The difficulty is that
sreo out-baanced by single idea. Christ
thatw be we'll balanced be free
FROM fanaticism did He treah the whom
they brOugh 0 Him specimen of the social evil of
the time? In such to cause her deractors to
stink away ashamed.
CHURCH NOT A POLICE PATROL.
"The church was intended to acta a police
patrol of individual the collection, but in
such a as induce the fuller and spiritual
life 1t can lay down code of rules which may be
forced. The of fighting evil does nOtre upon
any portion of the organized church, spirit of
the church should be the command of the forces of
Righteousness The church should never lend its aid
any partsanship the But in fighting this evil
noticeable forces of righteousness aren al
lied while the party is alive, allied and active. |
have heard temperance indulge
such vificatOn of character bellies their and
OBLIGATION OF THE CHURCH.
"Wha the church should emphasize in matter
the obligation conscience of the individual fight
evil. We know that is of the evils Of the
and that a the beck of this temp
tatOn constantly. theirs is responsibility and
they be rid of by laying blame hered-
ty environment by making that insane
that churchman is equally guilty The
sponsibiIy is the individual whether in the
Of il. The question is Of personal thirst no
matter how obtained, whether by induction from the
past, environment from the present, what not 1t is
to be assumed that drinking persons make drinking
problem, and until you that personal thirst some
now O other you al do nothing
"The mission Of the church . to emphasize the spirit
ual for this problem, ASSERT proclaim and insist
upon this ultimate remedy"