The log cabin Democrat., 1920-06-15
JEFFERSON OPENS
ADDRESSES HERE
NOTED RELIGIOUS LEADER
New York Pulpiteer to Speak To-
New York Pulpiteer to Speak To.
night at Methodist Church
Ministers to Banquet.

DR.. Chalres f. jefferson of New
York, whose writings and % consec-
utlve years in the pastorate of the
Broadway Tabernacle have made
him perhaps the most famous pastor
in America, delivered this morning
the first of his addresses at the
Hendrix College summer school. DR..
jefferson was introduced by DR.. John
Hugh Reynolds as the minister and
scholar who stands pre-eminent in
America as the Interpreter of the
spiritual side of the world war. DR..
jefferson will speak at the conference
today, Wednesday and Thursday, oc-
cupying the pulpit of the First Meth
odist church tonight and Wednesday
night. Prayer services at the Meth
odlst and other churches of the city
have been called off so that the ia
nous New York divine may be heard
by the entire city.
Speaking to the 800 ministers at
the school this morning, DR.. Jeffer-
son took as his general subject, the
theme of "Laziness," particularly as
applied to effective service in the
ministry. He stated that he did not
regard his discourse as a sermon, but
that he would take a text, announc-
ing passage from st. Paul: where
fore, If man stands, let him take
heed lest he fall" Dr. jefferson dis
cards any striving for oratorial effects
and speaks in a conversational tone.
his voice carrying with apparent ease
to all points of the auditorium. His
opening statement was to refute the
general idea that ministers as class
are beyond the reach of temptation,
showing how the nature of their call
ing exposes them to peculiar tempta-
lions, one of which he called laziness,
and more particularly, mental and
moral laziness.
DR.. jefferson took the platform as
the song service was in progress.
He joined in the singing, after his in
PRODUCTION by DR.. Reynolds, spoke of
his dismay as his train moved south
ward from New York and the heat
became more sweltering. He had
come to wonder, he said, what sort
of man DR.. Reynolds was, to beguile
him this far from his home. How
ever, when he had seen his audience,
heard its singing and received it's ap
probation, he declared the journey
was well worth while. DR.. jefferson
is Virginian by birth, and a Con-
gregationalist. He has served Broad
way Tabernacle for % years. His
latest book, which attracted wide at
tention in the religious world, is an
Interpretation of the spiritual side
of the war, to which he devoted much
study.
Work as the salvation of the min
lister was the point to which DR.. JEFF
ferson repeatedly required to add en-
phasis. Three requisites were nam
ed for the successful pastor, trained
and flexible voice, command of
comprehensive and elastic vocabulary
and the mastery Of style in sermons.
He declared that incessant toll alone
can make the preacher master of these
requisites, without which his ministry
will be uninteresting and a failure.
The Importance of the voice he en-
phasized by citing his auditors to the
life time labor spent by singers and
actors in perfecting their voices for
their chosen work. Command of lam
guage he emphasized by telling how
great writer's have rewritten as many
as 80 times the masterpieces which
have made them famous, and style
in sermon, he illustrated by the eX-
ample of Charles II. Sturgeon, who
wrote and rewrote his sermons before
he would allow them published.
DR., jefferson is perhaps the most
distinguished religious leader to ap-
pear in the south this year. His ad-
dresses already have lifted the Hen
dirk school to high plane. He will
speak tonight at the First Methodist
church at 8 o'clock and at the col
lege Wednesday morning at 1890
o'clock
Other speakers at the college to-
da ywere DR.. Ralph A. FELTON, of New
York and Rev. C. NJ. Mcconnell of
Ohio. DR. Mcconnell was the pastor
at the church last night, illustrating
with the stereopticion some of his
travels as missionary in Japan,
China and Korea. His address was
we'll received by the audience out
to hear him.
Tonight at o'clock, the ministers
will have their banquet. DR., Reynolds
announced that it would be served out
of doors, for the double reason that it
will be cooler on the outside and there
is no dining room at the college large
enough to accommodate the crowd. DR..
Reynolds, DR.. jefferson and probably