Show A METHODIST MINISTER in his centennial i I celebration sermon said This century has produced just as good and great a hero as WAsmxcToxLixcoLN The assertion I is well enough in its way and there may be I some who believe it but it was hardly appropriate j ap-propriate for the occasion any more than it was appropriate for the same minister tow I to-w iL ict say as he did in the same discourse that it is a question whether the corruption of the ballotbox with money is a greater sin before God or man than owning slaves as WASHINGTON diduntil the day of his death When one hears such utterances from the pulpit he does not wonder that the preaching preach-ing of this day is less effective than was I the preaching of old I |