Show KOEPSEL QUITS THE METHODISTS Pastor of the Iliff Hilt Church Aban Abandons Abandons Abandons dons His H Is Charge HE lIE HAD TOO MUCH Handled tile HIP I lend of Illi ilia Church In Phil lIh 1 SQ Seji odium h I nil nn nt Rev R jiM U ha I II Koepsel 1 pastor of the Iliff Methodist Melh church treated his hIli hearers to ICI a genuine surprise party yesterday In giving formal announce announcement ment meat of iii hi withdrawal from the tue Meth Methi Dartt ministry Mr II Koepsel handled bAndied lies nt Ills hits superintendent with without out Omit glove bOVes and amid the congregation which IU ift larger than appeared ap to en elm enjoy joy 1 the time way Wa 11 tho thu super luper was wal roasted In Itt the evening himself preach preached ed in mci tho time sHine church to an mon Imm of Just jUlit four people anil he ho hoto failed faded to to tn notice time the of ot the thorn morn mornIng lag Ing Mr sermon pennon WitS wise front from the th tet So then lien It If the Son nets mets you free Crell you ou will be he free tr e Indeed lie He said Bald BaldIn In port purt m Is an in absolute absolute b o lute lilts Jesus In iii speaking to the lilt lb disciple said You are all 1111 breth brethren rca ren There Was Wall no superiority amont They had their several gifts but equality WM wad the basis There were no not nor r l t or petty called elder to block Ills Imis growth or retard In hl hIm The form of rule was n a Invention ns nt Jesus Josua con comm condemned When began lesan to grow and time the Personal element essayed to assert Itself it w B then lion that time tho Human blush I forum form of government vats adopted by Home amid forced upon toe tnt rest so tar aa its With ith ill of its polish modern y anti apparent democracy the ho government cn and lieS been turned I Into a fiercer despotism than obtain oven even In iii tIme the CatholIc church What u mc lot of if nonsense Methodist preachers declare when they state that Inc Holy Spirit lends leads them whoa when many times time In the making of the tho appoint appointments ments It Is tIe tle devil who controls the minds of a t penurious elder for whom It Is Impossible sible to raise lie tho salary The poor vector pastor must be degraded Again why simy should there be lie any condi condition ion tion as am to the tenures tenure of Why a elected for life to live lire In ease and luxury others for a term of oars and time the pastors appointed for a year nt at ata u a time Are there no mistaken made In time the election of bishops bishop Verily verily come are not even sen yet they hold fast a office with a salary seven na aim large na as the average who Is time the theone one cite doing tIme the actual work Again tile the of appointments hns imas been de Into a commercial transaction Men are appointed who can tun raise all the him salarIes benevolent collections and can canay pay ay oft off chuich debts Preferment la itt given to these men I know of one who has rma not brains to tomake make an original but who patches up tt those of duets who vho line has not 1101 nay eny of the tho gifts of a me who has never haul had a revival and It Is n it positive agony to hear his bad English yet he lie lib ME tile pick among the best appoint appointments ments he can squeeze money cut nf of the people True Tru affection must exist between pastor amid members so that united ef of effort fort may ama b be put forth to fight the forces of sin Yet how Is this possible in Meth When such rela nela relations lions are formed they mire are ruthlessly torn asunder as In iii the Instance of Hunt and Liberty Park When time the members of the congregations ap appeal peal to time the bishop ion for the return of their pastor they are met with the serious No church has a aright aright right to fall fail In love with will It its pastor Even with such a government It could be endured If tIme the men who are time the leaders were always pure and amid holy Hut But they liars have not been They are be becoming coming more and more muon as the world about them At least one bishop I is a manipulator In fake nun min mining ing schemes Take a look nt at one of our recent questions Let Iet It be remembered that Dr J L Leilich receives receive for his use uti J 1720 from the missionary society more than the average salary paid haul to a pre presiding presiding siding elder In time the west liar Hav ng failed to rail call the district stewards together to fix his imle local salary there ID is no lenal obligation on tin any of tIme the churches to meet the amount asked by him Timers There should be ben bea n a uniform per lien cent of time the locally raised pastors salary ns am the equivalent for time the presiding elder chum over time the whole dIstrIct Why should the First church pay but 7 I per cent arid and some of the smaller charges es 55 In imm the district from 15 II to 40 per c cent nt Brother Parker of Payson was assessed about 33 13 per cent He lie received last year hut but 76 75 local support He lIe U is to receive UCO this year This quarterly conference took n a voluntary pledge to pay not over 16 15 per cent of that amount to the presiding elder At Unit fIrst they voted 10 per cent This would have still more than the lie church gave Dr wrote Brother I ar arker ken ker that the charge ought not only to pay time the W 3 he naked but by right might 40 Think of It A charge which pays but 1100 local support being under obligation to pay 60 00 per cent of it to the presiding elder Brother Parker ap appealed appealed pealed to Bishop Warren That bishop wrote that he lie saw maw nothing contrary to the law Ian of the church In Dr contention Time The most corrupt Judge would not have dared to render such a decision lIed Had he lie done to so he would have been immediately impeached ex cx expelled i and ami then disbarred A decision of that kind I is an outrage on Justice an Insult to Intelligence and subversive to every law of equity What can cn be 1 said In extenuation of such actions action Shall the law of led b his perverted to serve nerve the god Bod of avarice Take another example According to the confession of a superintendent time the bishop gave him the following exhortation You dont know anything about hypocrisy Learn to be a hypocrite When you get It In for a fellow preacher BO go after him Do Io It kindly brother Press Iress him tn to the wall wail Stick hip him under time the fifth rib Finish Mm him This laudable instruction was no doubt heeded disastrous re cc results suits began Immediately to materIalize materialise and flowed in a constant stream Money Is the cry from beginning to erich end The preacher to must leave the high calling of giving hi his en entire entire tire time to the ministry of tile and begIn the serving nerving of tables table In this respect the high railing calling of the of time the opal chunh h hb ha b been n degraded approximating the care egre egregious of In fact no church can hope to win In Utah There IH is already an ab absolute solute despotism In control Poor Ioor de tie deluded The same Mine God Jod who gives you oU sunlight and fre fresh h air without the or authority of t a to io called priesthood also gIves gliM you salva salvation tion imad freedom In like seta mete free Rev Koepsel announced that he ii would continue to preach Christ Jesus Jesua f for r ulna and ammi risen for our u a personal ever aver present Savior Mr Koep rl and family will leave this week fur for their former Kansas horn time the probability Is that he lie will ro tiit ministry through tIme the church which he admires |