Show fis S IS TUB T WEST WICKED I IX 7 y A t ta A Denver clergyman recen recently ly startled d a 1 New Kew t l York Cork congregation on fashionable fashionable if not good Fifth avenue v. v nue b by the statement of conditions as he be sees y th Win them ll obtaining in the Wet West Iniquity is rife Evil abounds All the powers of darkness are aie at work and if we want to do da anything nothing but the most widespread vigorous evangelistic campaign campaign campaign cam cam- will avail To the observant and the thoughtful of the Rev Dr Coyles Coyle's New ew York hearers hearers hearers hear hear- ers it must at once oice have occurred that the denunciations ions thus h s hurled at alleged conditions in the West Vest might well be applied to those prevailing in Gotham itself The have legions of depraved de de- women prayed women bound to a slavery of debauchery and antl deb debasement more disgraceful than the Westill West Vest will vitI ill ever permit It is free from the curse of widespread widespread wide wide- spread d vice that afflicts Greater New York in forms and to a 1 degree truly appalling The New York Press thus reports the Rev Dr Coyle The Rev Dr Coyle 03 le drew vivid descriptions of the godlessness of the West Vest and earnestly set forth th the necessity necessity- for r prompt and energetic missionary work in the irreligious prairie districts There is no demand for preaching or preachers in the inthe the wicked West and sermons sermons ser ser- mons mans and Bibles are unappreciated commodities Dr Coyle was merciless in his denunciation of ther the Western r estern religious In the West Vest he said apathy pathy life begins with not with religion as inthe in the East Everyone begins life prejudiced against every form torm of Christian work There is indeed wickedness in the West or rather indifference to much much uch of the preaching that nowadays prevails But the Vest West has reverence for truth decency order and morality It has no use for sensationalism or emotionalism in religion It calls for the practical practical practical religion that will help elevate elevate- and nd su sustain tain man mal malin man in his every day life in his relations with wit his bra fellow man and above all in his individual and home lif life The religion in one word that the West rest calls for and is ready to generously promote is the religion of heart and home the religion that stands for pure and upright manhood and womanhood for sinless and happy firesides We have it in part but want more of it If the East can give it w we are ready to receive it But the East has in religion an and in other things something to learn from the West r r J |