Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-21

| system was to be blamed for the
! fact that the little $500 salaries OF
pastors are paid in broken promises.
He said the church was run about as
Beecher ran his farm up in the Peek
skills-it required his $4,000 earnings
| of the owner in the winter to Keep
the thing going in the summer. lie
drew q sharp picture of the EVIL OF
inequality of returns. and arraigned
those who care only to "enjoy' re-
ligion. He said: 81 never go begging
now; / say stand and deliver'-and
I get it." He said: "One-third of the
church members do all the paying and
all the praying. Give the others to
chance to pay and a chance to pray;
they are waiting for it. Give them
something to do and they'll do IT.
He said that this every member can
vass" should be changed to every
member a canvasser.
The bishop explained that he had to
be in Boston Wednesday morning ana
he was going to give them the mes
sage he had expected to give on
Wednesday. He spoke with all his ia
nous vigor and eloquence. He salo
he wished the last of his speech TO
be the best, for 1t was serious. lie
pointed the pitfall of indecision ana
! lack of courage. He referred to Hon.
James G. Blaine, his friend, man
whom he loved and admired. He SAID
| Blaine lost his head and the Presi-
! dency Of the United States by his rail-
ure to stand decisively as he had pro-
/ fessed with Gen. Neal Dow. He hao
net the moral courage to stand by the
colors he had chosen and he reaped
the penalty.
Bishop Hamilton compared the case
| of Blaine with that of Noyes, VINO re-
t fused to place himself, when eandl-
date for high Office, on the temperance
question. And the papers made lasting
Joke of his name next day as Moves.
Rev. j. &. crowther.
And then Rev. J. e. Crowther, d.
I D., of New York was introduced as the
boy who was raised in English cotton
mills, had come to this country; edu-
cated himself, studied for the minis
try, had been sent into the West to
gather up the bones of a church that
was dead: that he had made of it a
/ living. vital, lasting force for good,
and finally had been commissioned by
the national organization to go forth
and breath life and blood and new ex-
istence into the churches of the whole
broad field-"and he is doing it. When
you hear him you will understand"
And they did,
Probably no public speaker has more
effectively lifted an audience out of it.
self and whirled them along with him
in a countrywide tour of the modern
Frontiers than did DR.. Crowther. The
writer forgot to write and the listener
forgot himself. The writer just hoped
that the speaker might have something
of his address in cold type where or
binary newspaper chaps could catch
up with it. The pace was too swift and
the atmosphere surcharged with force
hiatt compelled absolute attention.
There was a sermon in every sentence,
and they came tumbling over each 9TH
er, one blotting out the other before
it could be Transcribed.
DIR. Crowther laid bare the evils
of the Industrial Frontier" and the
Social Frontier" and frontiers that
brought the 400 present UP on their
toes to miss not word. =
He said: Now 1t is daybreak ey-
erywhere," and you saw the sunlight
of Christ,s day breaking the clouds
of human trouble that he pictured so
vividIy. He said: This Is great
day in which to live and his hearers
got a new meaning of the word life"
But when DR.. Crowther addressed
himself directly to the ministers pres
ent from scattered fields and said:
It would rather be a worker in one
of these fields today than to have
walked with my Saviour in Galilee,"
new meaning of the size of their
work was undoubtedly suggested to
some.
DR.. Crowther spoke of the street
man Of the great metropolis philosoph-
izing on the distribution Of the ac-
cumulated wealth of humanity-the
rich man in his automobile and the
beggar lodging it.
But, what's the use? Even II we
had all his address the writer could
not produce the power and magnetism,
the appeal and the sledge- hammer
blows, the perfect phrasing and enun-
ciation-all these belong to DIR. Crow
Their and much more-he must be
seen and heard to be realized. The
treat which he gave in that Method
list vestry Tuesday evening-at only
the opening of the Efficiency Con-
gress" that is to inject new life into
the Methodism of Maine.
DR.. Harry +. Ward.
And then the good bishop played an
other trump. He played that King or
| mems hearts who swept the great indian
apolis convention up to its feet and into
a perfect frenzy of enthusiasm last Oc-
| tober, Prof. Harry F. Ward. d. D., OF
] Boston University. He was introduced
as the missing Link"-between the COM
mon people and their Maker.
Dr. Ward said he hoped he was all
there and that the rest would still be
there when he had finished. And then
he "cut loose" IL we may use the ex-
preston as indicative of the way his elo-
quence ran away from the writer. But
he made it plain that industrial unrest
is no mere movement of accidental dis
i content: that 1t is God calling to his
people, driving his forces to destroy the
drink traffic, to destroy the traffic in vice.