Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-01
OPPOSES METHODS
OF BILLY SUNDAY

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as when II was materially wealthy and
strcng."
DIRECTS TO SUNDAYS CRITICISM
OF MINISTRY AS "nUNCH OF STIFEsr
DR.. Maclafhlan further disavowed
faith In Sundays methods for the lat
ters criticism OF the ministry. tho
members OF which the evangelist once
termed "A bunch OF stifYs," and his de-
nunciation Of those who hold opinions
dinering from the evangelist on biblical
| and theological points. Dr. Maclach.
Ian submitted shat the members of the
! ministry are the servants OF Almighty
Hod' and that thoy will compare ia
! Horably for earnestness. selt-sacrifice
ana devotion with any peripatetic evan
| gelist. He said that evolution and the
| higher criticism are SUNDAYS net aver
sions. and recalled that Sunday had
once In one OF his meetings pointed a
scornins finger at n believer In higher
| criticism and told him in plain word.
TO go to hell! Surely. thought DR.. Mac.
iachlnn. this is not the type OF man to
| make permanent appeal.
Or. Maciachlan also criticized sum
! day for being too individualistic savlnp
| that the eransclists appeal was ONLY
| 10 get right with God, to escape hell
and win heaven. which the minister
did not think sufficient. I'VE must get
| right also with our fellowman." said
! Or. Maclachlan.
QUOTES FROM EDITORIAL
IN PHILADELPHIA PAPER
| ne quoted from an editorial In a
Philadelphia paper which denied some
oi inc accusations which Sunday had
| brought against that city, and said
| mat the bipartisan machine could not
! Keep its stranglc hold on the people IL
! IL were not fer the whitcwash OF re-
| spectabllity II got every year from the
class oil mon who form the committoe
To run the Sunday campaigns Even
the multitudes OF the church oficials,
the editorial stated. stood sponsor for
I l3uies Penrose. and backed him at the
| polls. AS instAncing his statement
that REVEALS modelled upon Sundays
| methods do not bring lasting good DR.
Maclachlan cited Louisville, Ky where.
after revival, every Democratic on
Ger WAS put out OF Office by the court,
and Atlanta. Ga, where DR.. Maclach-
| IAN said the wave had passed, and
o-day Atlanta is pilloried before the
| civilized world as city OF nab rule
| ,crroriZihg It's trial courts and quitting
Itself In the blood OF an innocent Jew
METHODS no NOT CREATE HIGH
| TYPE OF SPIRITUAL. RELIGION
! DO Sundays methods create a hiHh
! typo OF spiritual religion Dr. Mac
! lachlan asked. May not religion he
cheapened by bringing II down to the
| level OF the ball park and the comic
supplements" The preacher said that
the slang and vulgarity attributed to
! sunday tend TO lower the whole spirit
| nal tonc Of tho occasion and asserted
that II he were to repeat some Of the
expressions attributed to Sunday his
elders would ask him to get down and
out. He credited SUNDAY with having
some hypnotic influence. which merely
! suspended the will without guiding
ana Keeping IL In proper channel
! II appeal from Philip drunk to Phllip
sober. exclaimed DIR. Maclachlan 81
love human souls too we'll to have them
| bu!lied and jockeyed into the church I
! love the church too we'll to cheapeu
! its appeal, even for immediate results
! love my God and Saviour too much to
| hear them addressed with tho easy
! familiarity OF the straets Has the
/ church got to the point where IL has
| lost faith In itself and must clutch at
any straw TO save it's prestige? Has II
go; SO impatient with God that 1T
must seek to force Ills hand? This IL
the cheap and easy way Gods way
| Is diferent--it Is the way Of the ordi :
hances. the WAY of the sacraments. the
way Of the daily cross, the va: Of pa :
| tient continuing in well-doiuE with
| this promise added, that in due season
We shall reap il we faint not"