Show FLAYSTHE METHODISTS i Rev L H Koepsel Quits His i r 1 Old Church i 1 MAKES SERIOUS CHARGES J V Vf f r Speaks Out as Did Savonarola v of Old i 1 I I r i Says tho Officers Arc Despotic Dishonest V j Dis-honest Selfish and Worldly Dr Leilich Denounced i y J 1 In attendance Tho large congregation lend at the hut 71 E church yesterday to a moat severe arraignment listened morning lstened n raignment n of Methodism delivered by denomination It was I 3 minister of that donomlnaton I the farewell sermon of Rev L H Koep I sel who had already tendered his resig announced his purpose oC nation and I entering the ministry of the Congregational i Congrega-tional church t In the evening Rev Leilich the presiding much of In for siding elder who came criticism preached at Rev Koopsels critcism the same church to an audience of four resigna He did not mention Koepsels tion or farewell sermon TEXT OF THE SERMON 1So then if Rev Koepsels text was It will be free free you the Son sets you wi The sermon was too without doubt doubt lone to be reproduced In full but some long arc striking of the most paragraphs appended f ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM Methodist Episcopalism Is an abso to Jesus In speaking lute despptlsm t5m all brethren the disciples sid You are al ren There was no superiority among ieI them They had their several gifts but There the basis equality was blls were no popes bishops or petty despots block his elders to called presiding prsiding growth or retard him In his usefulness T The episcopal form of rule was a heathen Invention such as Jesus condemned perversion began to d mned When beran clement essayed grow and the personal tQ assert Itself It was then that the heathen Roman form of government was adopted by some and forced upon wos the rest so far as possible l With all s of Its polish modern phraseology phrase-ology and apparent democracy the MethodistEpiscopal government can and has been turned Into a fiercer despotism des-potism that could possiblY obtain even potsm Roman Catholic church r WHERE THE DEVIL WORKS What a lot of nonsense Methodist 0 preachers declare when they state that the Holy Spirit leads them when many times In the making of the appointments appoint-ments it is the devil who controls the minds ot a penurious selfconceited pre SIdIng elder for whom It la Impossible tVraise the selfassessed salary The irlc Again poor pastor must be degraded why should there be any condition as to the tenure of office Why a bishop elected for life to live In ease and lux eleced le and ury others for a term of years the pastors appointed for a year at a time Are there no mistakes made In the election of bishops Verily verily Borne bishops are not even gentlemen yet fome they hold fast a lifelong office with times as large as the a salary seven tmes average n pastor who is the one doing the actual work Again the making of appointments has been degraded de-graded Into a commercial transaction grded Men are appointed 0 who can raise all the salaries benevolent collections and can slorle pay off church debts Preferment la given to these men I know of one preacher who has not enough brains to make an original sermon but who patches up those oC others who has not Intche6 any of the gifts of a speaker who has never had a revival and It Is a positive agony to hear his bad English yet he has his pick among the best appointments appoint-ments because he can squeeze money out of the people MUST NOT LOVE PASTOR True affection must exist between nnstor and members so that united of i fort may be put forth to fight the forces r of sin Yet how Is this possible In Meth l odlstEplscopallsm When such relations 1 rela-tions are formed they arc ruthlessly j torn tlons asunder an In the Instance of Brother Hunt and Liberty Park When the members of the congregations congre-gations appeal to the bishop for the return re-turn of their pastor they are met with I the serious pronunciamento No church has a right to fall In love with its pastor pas-tor NOT PURE AND HOLY Even with such a government It could be endured If the men who arc the leaders were always pure and holy But they have not been They are becoming be-coming more and more as the world about them At least one bishop Is a coldblooded manipulator In fake mining min-ing schemes BURDENS NOT EQUAL Take 0 look at one of our recent questions Let It be remembered that Dr J l Leilich receives for his use 1720 from the missionary society more than the average salary paid to u presiding pre-siding elder In the middle West Having Hav-ing failed to call the district stewards together to fix hla local salary there Is no legal obligation on any of the churches to meet the selfassessed amount asked by him There should ben be-n uniform per cent of the locally raised pastors salary as the equivalent for the presiding elder over the whole district Why should the First church pay but 7 per cent and some of the smaller charges in the district from 15 to 50 per cent Brother Parker of Payson wan assessed about 33 1H 1 per cent HP received Inst year but 75 local support He is to receive 5100 this year The quarterly conference took 0 oluntary pledge to pay not over 15 per cent of that amount I to the presiding elder At first they voted 10 per cent This would have been Htlll more than the First church gave Dr Lclllch wrote Brother Parker Par-ker that the Payton charge ought not only to pay the 332 he asked but bright b-right SCO Think of It I A charge which pays but BO local support being under obligation to pay GO per cent ot it to the lreeldlnl older Brother Parker appealed ap-pealed to Bishop Warren That bishop wrote that he caw nothing contrary to the law of the church In Dr Leiltchs contention The mot corrupt Judge would not have dared to render such a decision Had he done HO he would have been Immediately impeached expelled ex-pelled and then disbarred A decision of that kind IH an outrage on Justice an Insult to Intelligence and subversive to every law of equity What can be said in extenuation of such ac tions Shall the law of God be perverted pervert-ed to serve the god of avarice STUCK UNDER FIFTH TUB Take another example According to I the confession of n newlyappointed superintendent the bishop gave him the following exhortation You dont know anything about hypocrisy Learn to be a hypocrite When you get it In for a fellow preacher go after him Do It kindly brotherly Press him to the wall Stick him under the fifth rib Finish him This laudable Instruction was no doubt heeded disastrous results re-sults began immediately to materialize and flowed In a constant stream CONTINUAL CRY FOR CASH Other church methods to which the minister objected vas the custom of making ministerial appointments on Sunday the maintenance of unnecessary presiding elders the withdrawal of a divine call to the ministry the multiplication plication of stringent rules the continual I contin-ual cryfor money and the favoritism and bossism shown In making appointments appoint-ments He said BAD AS MORMONISM Money is the cry from beginning to end The preacher to succeed must leave the high calling of giving his entire time to the ministry of the Word and begin the serving of tables In this respect the high calling of the ministry of the MethodistEpiscopal church has been degraded approximating the egregious egre-gious materialism of Mormonism In fact no monarchial church can hope to win In Utah There Is already an absolute ab-solute despotism In control Poor deluded de-luded Mormon The same God who gives you sunlight and fresh air without the permission or authority of a so called priesthood also gives you salvation salva-tion and freedom in like manner Josuo sets you free Rev Koepsel announced that he would continue to preach Christ Jesus crucified cruci-fied for humanity sins nnd risen for our Justification 0 personal everpres ent Savior |