The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-13
REVEALS QUICKEN
GIFTS TO CHARITY
REPLIES REV, LYONS
Donors For Tabernacle Give
Heartily For Support of
Poor Relief.
CHURCH GIVES MUCH
FOR WORTHY CAUSES
Religious Awakening Results
in Greater Gifts For Aid
of INDECENT.

The Rev :. Il. Lyons. pastor OF
Reid Memorial church. who has been
working in overalls as one of the force
OF carpenters constructing the taber-
nacle where the Honeywell revival
meetings are TO be held. dropped his
hammer and nails today long enough
to seize Il pen and write defense
of the revival campaign.
The statement prepared proved TO
preferred yesterday by William Dud-
ley Foulke that the money being eN-
pended for the tabernacle could be
used 10 a better advantage in provid-
ing relief for the poor of Richmond.
In the signed statement issued by
DR.. Lyons today. he says that those
people who contribute the most To
revival meetings are always the same
ones who subscribe the bulk OF the
funds for charitable WORK. and that
Prof d. W. Dennis. of Earlham col
lege. had informed him today of his
intention TO present statistics 10 prove
this assertion.
Meetings Quicken Charity.
DR.. Lyons also sets forth in his
statement that revival meetings quick
en- the benevolent tendencies of any
community. No other local minister
has as yet replied to Mr. Foulke's
statement in opposition to the Honey
well revival campaign.
DIR. Lyons statement follows:
Mr.. Foulke's suggestion of yester-
day concerning the contrast OF the
Associated Charities fund and the
probable tabernacle fund moves me to
say:
First, that the phase of religious
life sometimes seems in which prayers
are multiplied and the poor forgotten.
merits and receives the severe con
demnation of Jesus and all His true
| followers.
Second. that when a devoted fol-
| lower of Jesus broke a costly box of
1 ointment and poured it on Him, there
by earousing Indignation and evoking
the criticism that it could have been
| sold for large sum and given to the
poor, Jesus justified the waste and
! the apparent neglect of the poor thus:
! The poor you have with you always
and whensoever you will, you may do
them good, but Me you have not al
| ways"
In the light of this incident il will
| be very difficult to show that the re-
l yival meeting should be postponed un-
/ til we make all the poor comfortable
Third, | venture to guess that the
| people who will support the taber-
nacle meetings with time and money
! are the same people who give nine
tenths of all the money that goes to
charity.
| Fourth. the history OF all true re-
| vivals shows that their direct and i'm
mediate tendency is to greatly quick
en- the spirit of benevolence. and
/ greatly enlarge the gifts OF money for
all worthy causes. Furthermore. we
can not do our whole duty to the poor
! with a loaf of bread. and a warm
| coat. There is many a home OF pow
| erty that would be forever cured OF
it's poverty If IL would only open its
doors to the Christ who will be
preached in this revival.
Wherever genuine revival OF re-
ligion goes one of its most benign ef-
fects is the changing of idle and
drunken fathers into sober and indus
trious fathers. with the consequent re-
suit that home OF poverty become
homes of peace and plenty"