Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-06-11
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The Rev. Sunday and Pie:
Typical of the Rev. Billy Sundays
methods is a prayer he delivered at
Huntington, w. Va. where the hard
ness of heart Of the people is said
to have remained practically unaf-
fected even after the delivery of is
of his sermons. The beginning of the
end of this unregenerate attitude and
the start Of movement that reused
the own religious fever is attribute
ed to supplication of which this was
q part: ~
| They're kind people, Lord. They're
hospitable. They offer to place their
automobiles at our disposal and they
send us nice things to eat at the ho-
tel-cake and things like that. But,
10 Lord, we didn't come down here to
eat cake and ice cream and rhubarb
pie. Lord, we would have stayed at
home if that was all we wanted.
| Has the Rev. Bouck White, pastor
Of the Church of the Social Revolu-
ton, nothing to learn from Mr.. Sun
day? There is no rhubarb pie for
Mr.. White. No refreshmening confec-
tons come his way, not even on ice
cream cone. Before he had time to
express a syllable of the unconven-
tional things he had to say, he was
thrown from a New York church,
manhandled by the police and sent up
for six months.
Mr.. Sundays methods are criticiz-
ed as belonging to the theology of a
past time. Even Mr.. White himself
Unjust be convinced that his methods
belong to theology in advance of
his time.-New York World.
The Carpenters Call:
Bouck White, it seems, has just
written another Call of The Carpen-
ter" He has been sentenced to six
months imprisonment in the Black
wells Island workhouse b va Magis-
trate Campbell, one of the police court
species, in New York The magis-
trate probably never heard Of the
Call of the Carpenter There are
people in this country who have new
er even heard of The Carpenter.
| Perhaps in days to come one Of the
things the descendants of Magistrate
Campbell will not have written in their
books of records is that their forbears
once sentenced Bouck White to the
wOrkhouse. There are some things
the old French Bourbons refused to
have written in their records. The
genuine Bourbon is the same now as
in the seventeenth century.
The Bourbon of the year 1914 be-
Iieves that by sending man to pris-
on the cause he represents will be
suppressed or crippled, possibly kill
ed. The Bourbon cannot recognize
an idea. That was one of the weak
nesses of the southern Bourbon OIL
slavery days. In John Brown they
saw the enemy OF their system, of
their class. If only they could kill
John Brown and all his kind they
would feel safe, and, of course, to the
Bourbon to feel safe is to be safe.
The Bourbon never learns.
So they killed John Brown and |
their system only fell to pieces earlier |
than 1t would have done had John
Brown lived. The Bourbon, knowing
nothing of an idea, of PRINCIPAL. |
could not know that when they killed |
fanatical old John Brown they did not |
kill the idea he preached.
Now in New York a police magis- |
trate hopes that by putting Bouck |
White, Distinguished preacher, orator,
author, theologian. into a workhouse
in forced company with the dregs OF |
New York. he win be doing the sys-
tenn some service. Bouck Whites |
idea will be more active while he Is ii |
prison ceH than II he were In John |
Y. hockefeiler's church every day.