The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1918-09-07
MINISTER'S OF CLAYTON RESENT.
ARTICLE IN CLAYTON CITIZEN

Inc following squlDS which ap-
peared in the Clayton Citizen last
week have been the cause of con-
siderable comment and are perhaps
responsible for stirring the wrath
of the ministers of this County as
has never been done bfore.
1.-The Good Die Young is an old
saying, yet what a great number of
gray-haired ministers are in existence"
Have you ever noticed how incon-
sistent or unpatriotic, God must be IL
His agents, the preachers are obeying
orders? General Pershing is calling
for Chaplains, and the Y. M. c. A. is
calling it's Secretaries from the world
Sly, while God is said to be calling the
preachers to large churches made up
mostly of women and backed by high
salaries. Well, anyhow, God knows His
business, as he will not have to deal
with the shortge of labor question,
there being no danger of His agents
being killed by bullets"
From the best information we can
gather it is unjust to- the ministers,
as a class to insinuate that they are
not loyal, patriotic American citizens,
Without churches and without our
preachers, l am sure that even the
editor of the Citizen would not care
to linger long in this Fair and Pros
porous Community. While we may
not all be church members, the
churches seem to WELD certain
moral influence over the citizens,
which has a tendency to make every
man better and suppresses all kinds
of crime and wrong doing. We are
informed that the Methodist church
of New Mexico has less than ten min
isters left in the entire state. Rev.
Gaines left Ration a few days ago
TO give his services to the Army
Y. NJ. C. A., and that church, so far
has been unable to find anyone to
take his place. No doubt the same
conditions existing in the Methodist
church in this state and Nation will
be found in every other Christian
organization.
The ministers and Army Y. NJ. C. A,
workers do not bring up the rear
and rest on soft downy beds, while
the soldier sleeps in the mud of the
trenches. The Army Y. NJ. C. A.
workers are to be found in the front
ranks caring for the sick and wound
ed, the tired and weary while their
bodies are exposed to the shot and
shell of the enemy.
Read what the ministers of Clay
ton have to say:
Rev. w. f. Wills says:
THAT little article which appear
ed in the Citizen last week in refer
ence to the ministers of this Country
is not only false but is without fOun-
dation, and is evidently the outhurst
of an unthinking, prejudiced brain
1t is calulated to do harm, and nc
good can ever come from this class
Of journalism.
when | was in Columbus, Ohio
attending the Men and Millions Con-
ference it was stated at that time
that out of nine thousand ministers
three thousand were actually en-
gagged in some kind of War Work
One Bible School of the Church o,
Christ, at Canton, Ohio, has two hun
dred and eighteen stars in theil
service flag"
Rev. f. +. Graham says:
zone Of the most ungrateful thingi
| ever read was that little squil
which appeared in the Clayton Citi
zen last week, which in effect
classified the ministry of this Coun
try as Stacker bunh. l am no
in position to say just how man!
ministers of the Baptist faith il
New Mexico are engaged in the Wa
Work. However, to my own Ger
tain knowledge there is not a Bap
tist minister in this state that woul,
not gladly go to the front should h
be called upon TO do so. AS TO
our church workers we have i
Clayton twelve stars in our servic
flag. and others will be added i'm IN