Show 1 j I- I A SUCCESSFUL MINISTRY There There- have haC been hen numerous s numero references In this Hie newspapers lately to the Billy Sun Sunday the evan with which thc gHist is becoming T wealthy The latest Is the statement that thai his reIal le- le I al work during the time la last t six Mix months tia haNn haN lias n netted tEd him Sl O It I Is added as an after afterthought thought that thai it I lies has resulted in n the conversion conversion conversion con con- version of or r souls Far fe II it J from Crom us S to den deny to Mr Ir Sunda th the lie same sam right as us the lie ordained clergy I rc P to tomake make mone h by 13 his spiritual H it I is il evident that he comes nearer r to 10 tons meeting time the spiritual needs need o of the liE com corn than the thor they do or else It I would no not nol t moie and the wa Ii Is S pa pay him molt nome money way It wide open aDen tee for fO the clergy to be he more mont morp like hiki him and nd make Jest st a as much Conceding the f urty of Mr r. r Sunday Sunda K 5 motives mothes and the extraordinary value valLie of 0 his ministrations hl his uk enormous pc profits necessarily arIY force on omm every ver mind th the Incongruity thieve there I is In getting rich b brn by br saving n peoples people's souls There seem to h be two kin kinds s of or pren prea-ji- prea i 1 ers erR of or time gospel one of or which like ikI the Ihl Master 5 s persecuted ted for tor righteousness sake sak and another which finds the lie min main a m ans of being carried to the lii skies on Clow flowery flowers n ht beds s or of ease It I seems to lo h have he e been th he theor of 0 the thu thC saints mentioned In the he that It wa was degrading and aO horrible to peddle out an any r blessing which was th direct gift of Go God Godor I for or the lie good of men When hen Naaman wa was S healed of or his leprosy b by Elijah he hI Importuned Im lm the prophet prophEt to accent a presen t and Elijah said said- As AN the Lord l eth none mione before whom I stand slant I will wi receive Elijah had hat a ger servant named o oa oa or ora a a more turn and he lie h. h ran ate Naaman and told him hs h's master masler hat had changed his hl mm ant and ant like hike a fen ew I. I things The rue result was wa that diat salt sale I Ito to The leprosy of shai sha ghai I cleave unto Into th lice e anti and ant unto th till thy s seed for oree or or- e ever We c do not remember ever vel hearing 3 sermon on omu I lUtle tte trick and It Its ant Is results nor nOl o o 0 Sinon lon Macu lacu who lio offered of oC- ferett on one for t te o power ower of or Imparting the Iho Ho Hor Ghost and ami to whom Peter Ieter said Th Tb Thy mow money r erl h tJ thee p P thou thon host hat that the gift of oC God Got ot I Imay may mav be hI purchased with wih money monty We p beard lup praise 1 on Pans Pan's reTia-k reTia that the he laborer W wa S worth or of hs h's reward but bitt hit never a m men mention n- n ion tion lon of or b's bs other remark that It was 0 bet bet- let let- fr he lp should dl 01 than that the gospe I should not nol be without price We t do 10 not pretend to arrue i precedents with wh the doctors of oC and wo wp refer to tJI these r on ns as S a sort ort o of or apology y r for fot th tho shock hock we feel eel whenever r we read o of a it man making a fortune beca be be- ca calp e he hp s wint Int Is J a n win soul n oem ner We Vl feel teel sure that th thi large Inri ma ma- of or people are like Peter jete and fee CeC I Indignant at the thlin very in thou thought ht that th thu gift gIr of oC God od co can n be ue purchased wit I I Imone I mone money This suggests th the most mot Important phase r. r of or the matter The Time large amounts amount o of f hr which come ore revivalists Ie receive for tor their spiritual services i a great Ilat stumbling of or bling minds mind to lo the lie more moie thoughtful class caf Mr 11 S line has saved ed souls for 20 which I Is Jl l 2 23 per eI sou soul soud but how howman mans man ouis have bo been en Irretrievably lost b by reading of or It I and h hy by getting th the Im Impression im- im that preachIng i id e are on only money making mone and that rel religion lon is s u ii 1 a delusion Illusion We e a are e old fashioned enough h to 10 believe e that the tit greatest amount o of power owel in preaching Is N and a alwo's 1 wars will wi be lie with wih tho time preachers who without courtn pcr persecution persecution perse perse- cution culan hoo hac hae suffered the lo JO s of of al all al things s on and without a sigh o of regret for fM S he hI lo gospel Chicago Chronicle |