Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-06-12
Baseball EUangelist


above quoted goes on to say:
1.-THE commercial feature of this evan
gelism' is also a serious matter. 1t is
far truer today than when Paul said It,.
that the love of money Is the root of all
kinds of evil; and the warning Of Jesus,
Take heed and beware of covetousness,'
Is counsel which was never before so per-
tinent. 1t Is the one vice of which a
Christian teacher should never be sus-
pected. Mr.. Sunday sets all that counsel
at defiance. 1t is notorious that he is
making himself rich in this business of
evangelism. At a conference of evangel-
lists held In Chicago last summer one OF
the younger men told OF counsel which
had been given him as to methods of
work by one OF the leading evangelists.'
Among other things this leading a
gelist had said to him, I've got all those
other fellows skinned q mile in the free
VIII Offering The name of this leading
evangelist was not given. DIR. Chapman
thinks 1t should ave been, and so do /.
Only one man could have truthfuIly said
1t.
mr.. Sunday takes out OF every con-
siderable city which he visits. for an
eight weeks service, money enough to
pay the average Congregational minis
ters salary for twenty years; and his
years accumulation would upport one
z ~ 10 Az
reticent about this; he breaches about II
frequently and def1antly; he insists hat 1t
is nobody's business how much none he
makes or what he does with It"
Returning to the Sunday doctrines,
Dr.. GLADDEN. sums them up In the fol-
lowing paragraph:
"As for the doctrine taught, It is the
most hopeless form Of medieval substi-
tutiouism. Salvation Is a matter of con-
tract; hell is a literal pit of fire and brim-
stone; the bible is verbally infallible; ev-
cry man who teaches the higher criticism
is a liar. Any minister who disputes any
of Mr.. Sundays dogmas is leading his
people to hell; Edward Everett Hale is
undoubtedly In hell. Adventism of the
most Grass variety Is unfiinchingly pro-
claimed; the world is going to hell as fast
as It can; all talk about improving social
conditions is rot"
Since DR.. GLADDEN. is admittedly one
Of the leaders in the Higher Criticism
and was for many years a personal
friend of Edward Everett Hale his
of resentment toward what he
understood Mr.. Sundays attitude to be
is not hard to understand.
Concerning the GLADDEN. article
which it printed, the Congregationalist
said editorially. in the same issue:
Mr.. Sunday will undoubtedly convince
many that he is a man whose methods
and spirit disqualify him for effective
Christian service. Others will continue to
feel perplexed and almost baffied in their
endeavor fairly to appraise him and his
work. We have never thought of him,
for an instant, as one to whom we could
point as a model for young people. He
is far from being the best illustration of
the graces and virtues Christianity is
supposed to engender when given q fair
chance In the human heart. What we
have said and what we are disposed to
reiterate is. that judging by what he has
done throughout the western country, he
has apparently been the means of bring
ing into the Christian life multitudes who.
humanity speaking, would never have
been converted. As one OF his own con-
verts wrote Vi the other day, The more
I hear and see OF Mr.. Sunday the more !
n at the instruments God uses for
accomplishing his purposes Ultimately
we are all brought to one or the other
conclusion. Either Mr.. Sunday is a harm
full and devastating force whose influence
bights every spot IL touches, or else, de-
spite his glaring faults, ne Is a man whom
God, for reasons which we cannot ex-
plain, sees fit to use for bringing many
persons into obedience to Jesus Christ.
God does not lodge all his gifts in one
man. Some men in the passionate repei
those whom their successors win. Mr..
Bruce Barton in the article which started
this discussion, rightly said that the ques-
ton of MT. Sunday is wrapped in the
larger question OF the wisdom OF all kinds
of special evangelistic effort. Many .
good movement in the kingdom Is fol-
lowed by reaction and disappointment.
Varied indeed are the modern manifesto
lions Of religion and some Of its outstand-
ing opponents sometimes not only offend
our tastes, but cross our most cherished
conviction We have sought in our re-
cent exploitation Of Mr.. Sunday chiefly
70 fuidll our function as . religious news
paper confronted with . remarkable