| Show GPOIIMjUr lIlJlIISI The Now York Mall and Express give Its opinion that 01 o of the greatest great-est obstacles with which religious activity has ti contend today Is unquestionably to be found In the grutoiquu performances of certain 1 professional evangelists It has good words to lay for Mr Moodys style claiming for him that tile originality of method his vigor of phraseology file Intensflcarnuitnua the convincing quality of nil elcquoucu and Ills absolute fearlessness la aisilllDg evil wherever found whether In Ibo mansion cribs hovel make him nn exceptional power for Ibo awakening of conscience and tire conversion ol his bearers Hut for Bam Jones who baa Leo operating In Boston und bis class of professed evangelist our cutemporary baa the utmost contempt declaring that the brutality and vulgarity of their expression disgust all who do not delight slezo 1 upon overy unclean thing paraded In religions name for uto aa a rniaslle to be aimed at the millions of good men and women who prefer churches to Irresponsible Irres-ponsible and circuslike performances This of course was lu response to Joness attack on the regular clergy but It contain truism In ins Ito went that tile individual who uses Ibo livery uf religion to pirado cheap sensationalism sen-sationalism la a menace to religious progress The pretended evangelist whose minlpulatlou of the Scriptures It to create hilarity or to Incite people 10 condition 01 abnormal enthusiasm does nol wield an Icllucnce for ultl mOl good but domo Ibo cattle ho pretends lu clamplon A circuslike performance the name of religion IB as far from true worship as Ibnbyp crllloal 1 ibatlsalam that was condemned con-demned In Judea durlug Ibo Lords ministry there |
