The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03
Give Us More Ministers
With DR.. BOyle's Nerve and
Detroit Will Be Cleaned Up

"Does Mr. Couzens lour new corwi-s o0e- ~
police propose compromise Nita '.. -.. -
traffic when he says the sunday saloon i-a. te
a debatabIe question DO nof understand .se
Inconsistency OF this public Official Wa5. a"
should NOT debate this question ONE tl0f-@1.
There IL only one answer Close these at-- .t
iniquity.'
The foregoing was not taken from a
political speech.
1t was not uttered at a Conno.ly-for-
Mayor MEETING in any hall.
1t WAS taken from a sermon.
II WAS uttered in a church, from
the pulpit of a church, by the minister
of a church in Detroit last Sunday.
And did the minister apologize for
letting politics get into his sermon?
Did he feel called upon TO say 70 his
congregation that in his zeal and in his
earnestness and on account Of a con-
Stunning desire to see his city savdi, he.
perhaps. had overstepped the bounds Of
propriety. and beg his congregations
pardon?
He did not.
He waited moment. waited for what
he had said to sink in, and then, for the
benefit of any member of his church
who may have sat there aggrieved,
shocked, Mortified or anything like that,
he continued:
do not apologize 10 any man for introducing
this subject. ! would be coward II l did NOT
warn you OF the dangers that surround Us E
this city. Are Michigan voters asleep 70 the
dangers OF the home rule bill?
And from here the speaker went on
In this fashion:
The citizens Of this city must 90 10 the polls
Nov. and decide which policy is 10 prevail in
Detroit, a reign Of righteousness and purity. or
Of unrighteousness and crime Oh. my friends
with vice raging saloons wide open their side
doors inviting the young OF our city. what
chance is there for Christ here? Why The men
In power are firing their poisoned darts az the
very tabernacles To keep solid with the saloon
ring they selling Michigan honor Buf !
tell you there will be no saloons In 1918 for any
police commissioner to keep open on SUNDAY.
] have never voted "a straight ticket ar cleo.
hon and you ought not 10. Regarcless % party
I beseech you TO vote for the best men. -he men
who will give you q CTS Thar is ~ 20 live IL
The minister was the Rev. W. H.
Wray Boyle, pastor of the Woodward
ave- Presbyterian church.
We are making a fight against the
saloon in Detroit and Michigan that
would have been won 10 years ago if
there had been ministers with the Spunk
to lean over the open Bible and talk as
straight to their congregations as DR..
Boyle talked to his congregation on Sun
day evening.
There wasn't one thing out Of the
way in what this minister said just be-
cause he said it in his sermon.
1t was exactly the thing for him to
say and do, and it is exactly the thing
for ev0y minister in Detroit and Mich
gan TO do at some time before the mem
oers of their congregations file TO the
voting booths in November
The minister who fails to do il will
neglect his duty.
We build and support churches for
their influence over city and state.
Ministers are appointed to these
churches TO spread that influence.
The work of the church and the min
ster is saving men from he'll.
What can there be wrong. possibly, in
speech from any sermon in any pulpit
by any minister if the object Of that
speech is TO save n city from hell?
One Of the great troubles with the
.hurch is the fact that it has been con-
tent TO be a power on retail basis,
when its real force can never be felt
antil IL broadens out into the wholesale
Held.
DR.. Boyle has led the way.
There will be some fine results around
k(re 10 show for il if this talk Of his
- Tho effect it ought to have and brings
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