Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-06-12
Continued from last week

OOAtkhUcO HUH Adnt WCQA
Mr.. Sunday himself never took part
i'm the discussion. Whatever was said
in his behalf was made public by
friends who may, or may not, have
been fully authorized in the premises.
At no time did Mr.. Sunday in any Of
his public addresses mention DR.. Glad
den by name, and such publications
as appeared coupling the two names
were due to unauthorized reproduc-
ton Of essentially personally CONVEX
sation.
On the other hand, DR.. GLADDEN. who
had opposed the coming of Mr.. Sun
day to Columbus maintained the strict
est silence after this had been deter
mined upon. At no time during the
Columbus campaign did he do or say
anything which could be construed as
opposition, unless it was the maintain
ing of his regular Sunday services.
His first public utterance appeared
in the issue OF the Congregational
list" May 20. more than three months
following the close of the Sunday
campaign In Columbus. Because o.
DR.. Gladden's international promi-
in the Congregationalist fold
and In the educational and religious
world generally this article provoked
the most widespread discussion.
DR.. Gladden's article appeared in re-
Spouse to hundreds of requests poured
in upon him from all sources where q
Sunday campaign was contemplated
Came from people who differed from
the evangelist in his methods. Leav-
ing u Of account for the moment
the differences in personality, which
in themselves would have made any
cooperation between those two men
impossible, it is of Importance to
know first DR.. Gladden's attitude on
some of the doctrines which MT. Sun
day breaches. In his paper entitled
THE Trouble About Billy Sunday"
published May 20. 1918, in the "Con-
gregationalist," DR.. GLADDEN. says:
''The intolerance and violence which are
the native breath of Mr.. Sunday furnish
the first and strongest reason for refusing
to work with him.. In his first or second
day in Columbus Mr.. Sunday said, The
F~atherhood of God and the Brotherhood
of Man Is the worst rot that ever was
dug out OF hell. and every minister who
breaches it is a iar.' I could hardly be-
1ieve my eyes when I read 1t, but I made
very sure that he had said, and the same
thing was said in substance over and
over. I do not wish to pass judgment on
the ministers who listened, without protest
to that; I know what their excuses were;
but I could not, without FORGETTING my
eelf-respect, have attended those services
until those words had been withdrawn n
humbly apologized for.
Such language was repeated every day.
Every man whose opinions differ from
those OF Mr.. Sunday is a liar; every day
he mounts the judgment seat of the uni
verse and sends men by scores to the
right hand and to the left-mostly to the
left. Statistics-of a sort-were kept OF
the number of Conversions but of the
number of those sent to hell, by anne,
no record, I believe, was made. It is a
great omission; for that is a large part
Of the business.
A evolutionists are consigned to hell.
Mr.. Sunday names one by one, those
whom he supposes to be evolutionists, and
with a dramatic gesture filings each of
them into perdition. There goes old Dar1
winl He's in hell sureE' And the enrap-
tured audience yeIls its applause, as one
evolutionist after another is dropped into
the fiery pit A staid Methodist preacher,
who watched this performance, said aft |
EDWARDS, I would never have believed, II |
/ had not seen 1t, that an audience Of
civilized Americans could show such a
spirit as that The scene at a Spanish
bull fight is really, when you think Of 1t,
less horrible"
It is we'll known to church workers
that DR.. GLADDEN. is q consistent be-
qieyer in the theory Of evolution as it
applies to all life, including the spirit
,ual life, and both his writings and his
preaching make this clear. This suf-
|hciently explains his objection to the
doctrine which Mr.. Sunday breaches.
Another thing to which DR.. GLADDEN.
objects is what he calls the CONNER
'cial feature Of the Sunday campaigns.