The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-01-05
SEVENTEEN CITY
PASTORS OUGHT QUIT
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field. And in turn says The Chris
tian Century, Torrey. Gypsy Smith and
Chapman have inspired and disap
pointed the hopes of Chicago churches
that this city might be stirred with
new religious life The Northwestern
Christian Advocate (Methodist Chi
cago) recently undertook a question
aire, addressed to the various Chicago
pastors Of it's denomination, asking
each to tell what results the recent
Chapman-Alexander meetings brought
to his church, his community and the
city as a whole When these pastors
frankly state for the most part the re-
suits are negligible in their churches
observes 1.-THE Christian Century, it
is time for some one to arise and ask
whether the $4,000 spent in this ev-
angelist campaign could not have been
spent to better advantage for the king
dom of Cod"
Why Do They Get Rich.
why do all evangelists become
rich? asked the speaker. Sunday took
$4,000 out Of Toledo. If I remember
correctly he got $4,000 at Springfield,
and either $4,000 or $4,000 at Colum-
bus
You may argue that the money is
given freely to the evangelist and is
not forced from them. We are not ig
norant of the sly way how to impose
on people and oblge them to give
when they are not really willing. Have
you noticed how Mr.. Honeywell is
working the game?"
For his work a Christian will &C
cept fair wages and no more. For a
man to pretend that the love of i'm
fo1
take thousands for a few weeks work
is such an absurdity that the blindest
ought to be able to see it, for it GER
tainly shows greed for money and
lack of Christianity. and even aside
from Bible and religion, in the name
of reason and common sense, why
should we load down these so called
evengelists with money to carry out Of
our fair city by the pocketful.
Better To Help the Poor.
Would it not be better to give it to
the poor and needy or to apply it for
public improvements for the good of
the community?
Was 1t necessary to build a board
shack when we have enough churches
and minister's If the seventeen preach
ers backing the Honeywell movement
cannot revive their own churches, let
lions call Honeywell, for he seeming
~ has the ability to serve seventeen
charges and fill the city with spiritu-
ality.
Il might go on to say that the peo-
pie will take almost anything from
these so called revivalists. That peo-
pie allow them to call them ugly
names and almost to spit in their
faces, and take it for an honor, is a
sign that they are false prophets"
Stir Up Frenzy.
The evangelists work up the com
munity into fanaticism so that sound
judgment is lost; they engender ami
mosities between neighbors, discord
III families, which often renders a
home unhappy for many years.
"If the seventeen churches which
are taking part in this movement can
for one-seventh of the Sundays of the
year practically be one united church.
why cannot they be one for the rest
of the year, and for the next, and for
always? If these various denOmina-
tons are one, what excuse have thew
for remaining many. If they are not
one, if they are SO much at variance
that they must remain separate, what
right have they to make the impress
sion that they are really one? They
Logan. they are united to pieces and
revived to death
Easy to "Revive"
The speaker then went on to show
that no great intellectual qualifica-
lions are necessary to become an evan
geilst, as 1t is an easy thing, so the
pastor held, to work up the emotions
of ignorant persons and play upon
them for effect
His pulpit efforts may be the mer-
est twaddle. pOintless, trashy, ridicu-
lOus, but 1t matters not, provided he
possesses a sufficient degree of self
assumption, carnal holiness and ef-
frontery together with the ability to
arouse the lower emotions of the soul
IN the ignorant, the unthinking, the i'm
pulsive and excitable portion of the
audience.
"Superticial minds jump easily to
the conclusion that the religious agi-
tatOr who makes many converts must
possess almost miraculous powers.
Misjudge True Pastors.
"On the other hand when such Sill
perficial judges of the ministerial Of
fee see truly evangelistic ministers
who do not employ claptrap methods,
who do not appeal to the imagination
OF excited hearers, but instruct the
mind, enlighten and direct the con-
science and impress the heart, such
infatuated lovers of a revival crusade,
conclude that true pastors have few If
any gifts for the ministerial office
He is called a one horsed, two by
four preacher, such as the Rev. Mr..
Lsghtbourn was denounced by Honey
well While he who can report the con-