| Show ON UN The Hugh 0 O Pentecost la is I con convinced vinced of ot the tho decline decadence he calls ois It I of or the church We scarcely need nee his that subject Most of or us are nearer the church then than Mr Ir Pente Pentecost Pentecost Pentecost cost Is now and nOI know more about its It weaknesses and Its ls strength than he does dos What we ve would like to learn from Mr Ir Pentecost In is II how he finds It II with wih the th folks tolk and amid the time organizations organization or he lie lietins tins has been leen In since he put pUI the church out of at his hs pale Docs he ho find dad any center of gravity among them thorn Do they thoy know Inow what they want and ore me they nt at nil all nI agreed how ho to attain It II Are they much munch In earnest 1 touching anything that a aman aman I man of ot Mr Ir training nod Ideals Ideal holds hoMI Important or Dr and andare are they willing milling to pay vaY II good god money for forthe forthe forthe the liberty of ot prophesying against other Otiler peoples religion T We Wp should really rea I like to 10 hear from Mr Ir Pentecost how It I fares faces ta rea with wih him and his hl new brethren and whether the cause eau o Is growing New Ne York Examiner Last LU week weEk wo we W referred to the bide Inde Indefensible In e feasible verdict of or a n Jury jut In tn Yonkers which against tine tho law anti ald lasts facts ac tic acquitted Ie quitted a n oman man who hind had vie vio violated 10 the law la It I U Is I reported that the tile Jurymen afterwards explained their verdict as mis IS time tho result insult of ut a I conviction convictIon tion that thal the thu law lair Is too strict arid and al therefore ought not to 10 bo lie enforced At In tills this state Slate there Is a n monumental mental example of ot this scorn of ot law on tile the part ot or respectable mon men In 11 I do de 1110 of cd tho tite law 11 of or the state and amid ni against t the time earnest protest of ot more moore lore than two wo 10 milliOns of ot the best liesl citizens of time the country the eminently rl able Ible directors of ot the Exposition I me ore lre persistently casting con can contempt tempt t upon the Sunday law III and doing what they twy can cl to Induce other people by the tho attraction a they often offer to It I We Wo are uio III not met now considering whether er Cl these laws II art are good or bad bail They hc are ale tile tho tie laws of tIle the state duly dul enacted d dand and standing on 01 the statute books and so long as they tho are laws the tl good citi citizens zens can cnn properly hold haiti but bUI one attitude toward them Christian Christan The old men mel lighters arid and controversialists pledged to sustain nn on impossible ble thesis are arc too old to change They IMY sec sea Iee their own on sons coming coining round to take alto up positions they th y have spent their lives in II in While they are standing sentinels over oer the punt past pa t the young oung army orm line has immured on Into Inlo tho tue future While they have Ilave been heen explaining and defending n a 1 crabbed cued the tho young generation has out outgrown outgrown ut grown It I and finds It antiquated and nl useless U The Time young preacher If he lIe al nl allows lows iowa himself to subscribe to an arm out outworn worn shibboleth often oten contents content himself with Ignoring It and passes on to more mure attractive fields felds of thought Looking Lookingback Lookingback back over tho the history of his itle church ho can see Beo how nanny many doctrines once deemed essential strew etres the tint path or have been cast upon the of ot old theologies theolo les His Hs hIl horizon has ha broad broadened blond cacti ened It I is the tho new day and the time new misty century he Is facing Th Outlook Much zany may 10 b li bC done Ilono by tho the which goes to the time theater That Thal publIc cnn can discriminate between the tue good and the time bud bad play pin pia It cnn can destroy the time bad play whenever It chooses by IJ time the most effective and kind of ot condemnation tion leaving It severely alone Il ne When people cease to go to cheap melodramas sensational coarse and Indecent plays tills this kind of entertainment vI HI vanish from the time stage It I remains theme be because cause cauto It 1 pays When the patron patronizes izes izea clean plays and good gOOt plays s plays ploys of tills this kind will wi take the entire posses possession sion Ion of ot the stage and ant hold It I It 1 lies es with wih tho this playgoer to decide whether tho the theater shall shah remain what It too ofton Is n a I place of frivolous and questionable amusement or shall become once onoe more one of or the Instruments of popular edu education cation Actors Acton will wi follow ollow the time cuo cue which the this audience gives them Good work on the ought to have havo prompt recognition I New York Independent Independent I Now how holY are tho the power and ancl success successor of or Mrs Eddys Christian Science which has line In It no 10 Christianity and no science ethnics and Mr Ir Dowies Christian Chris Catholic church In Zion Aon to be accounted for Why will wi people presumably sensible follow such teaching In the time first place there Is 18 a n multitude of ot people that want sant to be bo healed If I Jesus had not healed the tho sick He lie would have had no great following Sick people want to get well el they are aro cager eager to bo be told toll how they may get well wel and eager to believe anybody that win will wi tell teil tel thorn them Christians make their fortunes out olt of at this net fact Then hen Carl 11 was not far tar out of the time way when alien he his said that th the thA millions south couth of ot the time Tweed were mostly mos fords fools So io they arc nrc north of ot the time Tweed and west w sl of ot the tIme ante We do not mean menn that they may not be ordinarily or even extraordinarily achy orl cultivated and sensible ble bie people Hut But ut multitudes and Ind multi multitudes multitudes tudes of ot our ur people have no Idea of ot what Is the nature na ture of ot evidence eldene They Thoy have ba never ne r learned to think for tor them themselves selves el few teI do They hey have never stud atud studied led In a laboratory or elsewhere tile tho tI methods of ot Investigation Ordinary cul cui culture cultore tore ture even will wi not give this lila power or we should not find a n multitude of men women of or quite good education lit hit literary I In their tastes fasten accepting tile the non nonsense sense sene of a correspondence or the he pretenses of or the Hindu Undu sWamis The Time world Is Iq II full tul of ot possible disciples or dupes dupe of at zealots or frauds I S |
