Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-04-08 | Page 2 | Preachers Might Emulate Fighters

PREACHERS MIGHT ' EMULATE FIGHTERS NEW YORK. April 8. In an address Friday Fri-day to the candidates for admission into Ihe Methodist ministry and the New York conference. Bishop Hamilton of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, presiding officer of the convention, v said the successful preacher must be a man. -of the world.; He warned them not to bother about heresy or become heresy hunters, snd declared that there was too much philosophy and too little scripture In the study of doctrine. He told them to give the man with the hypothesis about the Bible the right of way if he had the j proper spirit, but not to accept all they . heard. - "Above all," said the bishop, "don't j ' preach it unless you know what you are i talking about. The Methodlsfehurch does and is expected to furnish the gospel for j . all other churches." ' . In recommending to the candidates the admonition for fasting the bishop Inti-1 mated that certain acts of prise fighters might be observed and emulated with 1 good results. '.'Out where I live," said he. "men who stand up and strike one another's faces for $3S.ooo of gate receipts , K0 away for weeks before and take care of their bodies so they can withstand the strain of the conflict."