The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-18
Less Faith in the Pulpit
Than in the Average
Congregation
MUST BE BORN AGAIN
Time Has Come for Church
TO Get on It's Knees and
BE Converted

h'l bO ~ lUiUkH 'Uhi dbn re-
ouire too much mental strain on
their part The number OF men
present at any public gathering In In
inverse ratio "a Tho intellectual
value OF the performance. At
vaudeville prize fight, bhn game
who furnishes the biggest part OF
the crowd Men At u musicale.
symphony concert, art museum or
church who furnishes the biggest
part of tho growd7 Women
women go dnffv over pictures" ."
sunday informed hls hearers Mon
don T. much. Women listen to music
and cay ON. it's h!v!r". Man l!stens
and says That's punk"
But tho roluctant--ao far ns
church IN concerned male is not
20 flettcr himsclf that because no
withholds the liRht Of hts counter
hnCo from its four inner walls, tho
church lg on the down grade Rev
erend sunday says not.--not ut all
It's unfortuuatca-Gh, surely TN
fortunate for the men not tho
church For In the parlance OF the
Reverend nilly. Men need the
church n darn sight more than the
church needs men
Reverend sunday performed n
Eor' OF moutal and verbal operation
upon the Inner workings of man
those workings that guide his foot
steps 20 puRllstic encounters ann
vaudeville shows and such frivolous
secular diversions and paralyze said
pedal action when the pathway
leads TO stained glass windows and
vested cholra. In the course OF that
operation he discovered indisputnble
evidence that man. speaking In en-
semble and not individual terms, IL
At heart deeply religious The aver
age man, declared Reverend sun
day Ia more Interested fin religion
than In anything else In the world
Well, what's the trouble then? Since
there are no women preachers, the
fault belongs with the SHIN men.
Kaps Pastors Too.
Now" explained the evangelist.
the main trouble In tho church to-
day Ia not In the pewe II In up In
the pulpit There II moro Christian
faith In the average congregation
today than there ~ in tho average
preacher. | repeat IT, thero II moro
Christian faith In the average con-
gregation today than In the average
preacher I am Jus, the boy that
will tell you. too"
"Ye must be born again" was
Reverend Sundays subject and no
said In part
II think that the strength OF tho
Catholic church lies largely In their
fidelity to principle and their hatred
of compromise. They don't compro-
mise. not nt all No sirl And "a
preacher ought 20 learn that his
chief duty IL to hold forth Chris
uanlty and not sanitation and not
politics and political economy and
euponicF, then review some book
and tack verse ot Scripture on 1t
and call IL n sermon--Noi MOI
People believe In the gospel.
whether It is set forth by a man like
Phillips Brooks or n man like
Moody. The great Boston bishop
never had any trouble about getting
an audience and, although he was
man ot the very highest culture
and cultivation and education, he
never resOrted to any tricks or any
thing but to preach the gospel. You
were lucky to get In TO hear the
fellow.
Pastor Should Lead
The pastor ought to be n leader
not follower. " he has tess con-
viction about Scriptural truth than
his audience, then ne never can
lead the audience II trumpet
gives a certain sound. II is for "A
charge, another sound is for retreat
and then reveille and then c0li TO
taps. But II a preacher isn't wholly
convicted, who'd know what to do :
They'd all be nuts
And the main difficulty In tho
church today 10 that people In the
news don't have tho gospel prcRche
to them. That is tho great trouble
Another great trouble with many
church members. | don't think they
are ChristianH, They can't stand
tho tests Jeaus Christ gave them
Love one Another"
Another thing. sabbath desecra-
tion. A lot OF people come To thi'
country with their damnable Euro.
pean ideas OF sabbath and then
we lower the standard TO let them
do what they please, until we have
no Sabbath 81 secma Thoee are the
reasons why we are not what wC
ought to he.
"And then the infdcl Influences
in some OF our colleges. wrecklnE
the faith Of our boys and girls that
we DO send there 70 learn and 10
taught ot God
IncldelIty In Colleges.
Professor James. down IN Bryn
Mawr, conducted nm investigation
recently lie took $500 names OF
the leading scientiHt4. historians
socialists and from them ne picked
l.OOO names ana thcn he dlNidtd
them into twu groups. Then he
asked those professors Ia the ~
leading institutions IN America, 'DC
you believe In n personal God p
"And the eminent professors, 10
per cent OF them said, no, and OF
the less eminent, So per cent OF
them said No.
Then he took the students In 1s
OF tho leading colleges Of tho
United states and h." asked them
the same question. Fifty-siX per
cent OF the men students said.
Yes" and 72 per cent OF the
women students said "Yes"
Then he divided them M. Eight
per cent OF the freshmen said
Yes" We believe In God and per
sonal Immortality" 76 per cent OF
tho sophomorcs said Yea" Seven
" per cent Of the juniors said
Yes" Sixty percent OF the Seniors
said YES"
SO here ARE the conditions ns
they are. The only way TO meet
the charge Of inetficiencv is To be-
come efficient, The only way to
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