| Show lm A repent number of at The M Strand Mug Mog MiI enumerates som of ur tha the novel methods adopted by tho the and revivalist t to attract at nt attention One minister in lIS is said to have announced that ho lie would woul deliver his hl sermons In a II red ret robe and by this sim simple means mean he lie attracted considerable at attention Another Illustrate illustrates his hla hillier ser sermons mons moos by b means of ut oil all paintings some Ramo of ot them drawn ra wn In the pulpit Ono One rev gentleman makes maltes use uru of at electricity to II his doctrines He lie has oven even In Introduced Introduced Wireless telegraphy In Itt tho the put pul nit nil Then rhen there are churches with rot root r o gardens In III which congregations may take refuge on a 0 hot lay day A California church attracts notice by n Chi Chinese anne nese choir and nod another church has be become become become come popular because It tt has hns engaged lady InI ushers In lii addition to these theo ori orl original ginal fe ures the tho story ator Is told toRI of or a 0 1 revivalist who wagers 1000 that he ho can cnn gain fifteen converts within two weeks In III any church loaned to him of ot a n St Louis clergyman who gives his hla congregation pictorial sermons from rein oil 1111 paintings and drawings executed by himself arid and of at a I t progressive pastor I who has hats become famous for tor advancing I novel Ideas Meas whose hose latest Innovation Is that of at offering alTering an Inducement of ot one ono gold goRl dollar to 10 mothers to have their children baptized Naturally tile the question arises whether er or such Buch Are lire ight or wrong It J t not be disputed that tho t there thero Is III a it conservatism which clings so BO rigidly to old forms torms as all to become useless In a progressive age oGe nut But Is there thelt no mid middie mIddie die way between that extreme and the tendency to tu tender Iener religious worship grotesque If It the tho modern preacher of ot the com eom common com mon Inca typo really felt tell that ho had hR a dl di divine vine message to deliver to mankind ono one that la hi of or practical value to the hearers hearer In their efforts to solve aole the tho vast problems of ot life lite and eternity they the would rely rei upon u on the tho Intrinsic worth north of their message and nn the tho divine authority of ot their commission for tor a hearing But Dut they the are painfully conscious of ot the ab lonc of or such qualifications They are ara not witnesses to what they the have heard and ant and an know but expounders of ot opinions about facts stated by wIt nit wItness nesses nesse ness long ago passed away And this secondhand Information Is III gen generally emily felt to bo ho of ot so 80 small practical value that unless It can be presented under sensational circumstances It has baa no permanent attraction In this tact fact the tho necessity y of at resorting to such lIuch schemes as nil those mentioned finds a alia na an natural tural explanation Catholicism has hall found It necessary to enlist In 41 service music architecture architecture ture painting and sculpture Protest Protestantism Protestantism condemning the tho use of at the beautiful arts for this purpose e has com corn commenced to turn to vaudeville for tor or aid old Instead The Gospel of Jesus never neer was Introduced Into the tho world with the as assistance of ot any nn such uch auxiliaries It ap III appeals penis peals to the tho heart and reason by means menns of ot that force torce which is Inherent In truth In Ill Its simplicity It Is sub sublime lime Though without ostentation It carries with it power for or the regeneration regeneration tion of at a n world |
