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Show A Mlnlstres Troubles. Evangelist Martin Is haVlng'a serious time of It In Salt Lake. The Methodist and Congrpgtitlonallst Churches donot tako kindly to him Itn'd have closed their Churches 'against (litm. The difficulty seems to grow out of 'some remarks he made against the effect- ivencss or the work of Christian ministers, generally. Tho following Is an extract from ono of his discourses on the silbjcct'. , "Just think of 3000 ministers ptcaqh-lng ptcaqh-lng twice caclt Sunday for a year', or 312,000 sermons, supported by a large church membership, an .irmy of Sunday-school workers and Christian Endeavor En-deavor societies and all this so-called religious work,. without a single accession acces-sion or profession of faith. To come a llttlo nearer home the conference minutes of the California conference of the M. E. church for 1001 show that there were 221) effective mlnlstris, supported by a regiment of Sunday-school Sunday-school workers, Epworth leaguers and 10,090 church members, paying out for ministerial support $150,000 and at the close of the year figured up a loss of 107 In membership. No wonder they do not want me to say anything about tho churches or the preachers. "From the foiegolng facts it is evident evi-dent tho church needs something. Now just what that something Is, Is the question that Is puzzling the churches throughout the land today. Ono thing Is evident, it Is not a better educated ministry. 1 The'ologlcal schools and universities Uro getting to bo as thick as the peaks of'tho mountains, and neatly cvety cjiurchhasaJXD. or Ph. D., and as some ono has said, you might Justly add an'N. G.' fora'pastbr. ' "AgaIo,'It Is Jictt the powt;r, of, money that is 'needdd.' In many instances it has.bcen'catcrlng'to.tliQ rich,, that' T"irM. ri i-rir " wi.ii.wl.rinb ft .,,, has robbed the church of Its power. U H As a rule tho higher the church H steeple goes tho lower the spirituality L H goes. The church Is not In need of u H tho power of inembois. Tho fact is t M the church Is not in need of more I H church mcmbers,but a better grade of M what she has. As Joseph Cook says: I "The great need of the world is tho 1 H Christianizing of Christianity." H |