The Monroe journal., 1922-09-19

Pastor Around to Deliver the Goods
While DIR. Burrell Would Have the
Methodists Believe That DIR. Wea-
yer Wanted to Look After Some
Stray Members - Some Baptists
Also Astray.
Stealing a march on their congre-
cations DR.. c. C. Weaver, pastor of
Central Methodist church, and DIR.
W. r. Burrell. pastor Of the First
Baptist church, exchanged pulpits
Sunday night, neither congregation
knowing anything about the arrange
ments until the respective preachers
appeared in the other fellows pulpit
and began the services. Of course
erybody was guessing what had
happened to his pastor that he could
not preach Sunday night, but the sus-
pension was soon broken when, be-
fore announcing their texts, each
preacher explained that an exchange
of pulpits had been agreed upon be-
tween the two pastors in secret
meeting where the pact had been
worked out, sealed and probated "un-
.beknownst" to the victims of each
denomination.
At the Baptist church DR.. Weaver
told DR.. Burrell's congregation that
he had decided he wanted the Meth
odists of Monroe to hear some good
preaching and had sent their pastor
around to deliver the goods. But DR..
Burrell announced at the Methodist
church thai DR.. Weaver had some
stray members that he wanted to
look after. He also stated that a
number of the Baptist folks hadn't
been seen at their church for some
time, and that "some Of them are
in this congregation tonight"
For some time it has been known
that DR.. Weaver and DR.. Burrell are
very close friends. They are men of
broad vision and large experience
and they are big enough to rise above
petty jealousies and little thinking
and to join hearts and hands for the
best interests of the town and COM
munity in which they live, and it is
to these men whom Monroe and Un-
ion county people love that we large
ly owe the splendid fellowship and
kindly feeling existing between the
different denominations of the city.
DIR. Weayer's Line of Thought
At the Baptist church DR.. Weaver
handed Dr. Burrell's congregation a
discourse along the line of lethargy
tor shirking on the part of church
members.
He declared it had always been the
ease that too many people are willing
to stand back and let others do the
work and then claim or at least ac-
cept the benefits derived therefrom.
The burden of his sermon was not
so much what people do that they
should leave undone as it was what
they fail to Accomplishment so much
the sin of commission as that of omis-
sion. He made it clear that it ap-
pears to be the business of many to
criticise and find fault with the lead
ers. They are willing for progress
sive movements to be carried out, but
they don't like the leaders and they
therefore won't have anything to do
with the movement. They lie down
on the job, let the other fellow do the
work and then reap the benefits. Not
having heard DR.. Weaver's sermon,
the writer is not in position to give
the language he used, but it is easy
to imagine that he likened the slug
gard to the old man who climbed
upon the joist in the house when the
bear entered and let his wife, with
her butcher knife, fight the beast and
win the battle and then came down
and said, Just look what we did,"
Those who heard DR.. Weaver state
that he handed DIR. Burrell's congre-
cation some of the same kind of
medicine he has been dosing out to
his own crowd, and that they took
it all right but didn't lick the spoon.
DIR. Burrell Talks About the East
At the Methodist church DR.. Bur-
| rell drew very dark picture of con-
/ ditions in the East and declared that
since the Japanese defeated the Rus
slams several years ago the colored
races of the world have maintained
an air of defiance and that some time
' the white races will be compelled to
t fight for their predominance. DR..
Burrell has travelled extensively in
the East and is in position to know
conditions as most people cannot
know them. He told how the Moham-
|medans are waging an aggressive
campaign and preaching religion
| of depreciation and waste that ap-
'peals to the natural inclinations of
the savage or non-christian races,
and declared that it is spreading like
wild fire. The christian religion, he
declared, is the only thing that will
pr can stop this awful onrush of de-
struction. He pointed to the pres
ent ravages of the Turks upon the
christians as symptom of these con-
|iitions. But, after the dark picture
had been hung before the congrega-
ZION, he turned the other side and
made a. most impressive appeal to
church members to awake from their
Ileep and counteract this poisonous
bropaganda with the wholesome in