| Show A NEW SECT A new religious movement and if reports are true the most peculiar of the many offshoots off shoots of the main christian adies has recently been started in st louis A paper published in that place gives elves an interesting account of the alms aims of its promoters as ae well as the means they propose to employ the name is the worlds missionary association and it to la formed for the purpose of offering salvation to every soul in every land the members preach holiness and social purity we the necessity of recognizing the influence of the holy ghost healing by faith the tithing system the equality of the sexes as to ordination for ecclesiastical offices and the duty to preach without salary this last laet point is on which is attracting tr much attention tue tae pren pre n adt ddt or of toe the association mr C 8 hinley says ministers should live ou on what voluntary contributions they can receive it bey are hungry or clothing hey ghey ought to have faith enough to tohru pre sent seat the matter to lo tue lae almighty in praye pray raDd erand they shall obtain what they absolutely need but in order to be in a position posit ioa to io pray with perfect confidence their needs must be reduced to a minimum ail aorta of ornaments are ous and cannot be tue lue subject of prayers what he calls apostolic implicito must be too toe ru rule a lu in every thing their separation from ane world must include such things as intemperance the use use of tobacco the wearing ot of gold pearls pearla aej all sorts aorta of it jewelry as well wail as aj clothes mileo made 0 costly cantly mat material eriar church socia bles theaters concert concer tp corsets bans bana feathers ruffles ruf flae lace plug bats mustaches and tanoy hair dressing are especially and severely condemned the founder ot of this association was fori formerly a free methodist clergyman but his aggressive doctrines reu rendered dered him distasteful tu to the church and he parted company with his bis associates as general booth had to do 00 when the salvation army was inaugurated it numbers at present only thirty members in st louis but has branches i IB a a few other places they are fond of referring to it 16 as the pentecostal amov movement a anticipating for it world wide success sac cess this new religious sect to is hardly sufficiently known as yet to allow of an all extensive criticism of its tenets and me methode thole its advocacy of faith SO as an all powerful principle to is certainly correct as to is its condemnation of the prevailing custom to handle the word ot of life as merchandise to be bought and sold at so much a year the word of god in all ages sustains this position most emphatically but the anxiety to avoid avo idall all worldly appearance even in clothing seems to be fostered festered by a misapprehension of the root of the evil against which their efforts are directed as well as ignorance of the proper remedy yet the stand taken oy by them in this respect will be mildly critic criticized izad when it is remembered to what almost criminal extravagance many professed christians have allowed themselves to drift and how they are drawing others with them in the current that proved destructive to vast numbers num beris extremes are always near but a step separates one from the other and the reaction which these let us hope honest souls have caused in earnest la Is SO as natural as a sensation of chill in 10 a fever Nevert nevertheless belese it is well to remember that asceticism is in not a mark of holiness the fact Is ia that the heavenly father never prohibited his children from cultivating a taste for what is beautiful ornaments adorned his temples of old and the clothes of those who officiated therein our savior himself wore a piece of clothing so precious that even the rude soldiers at the cross perceive perceived 1 that to out cut it to pieces would be to it the absence of jewels and ointments and so on is spoken of by ancient prophets as a I 1 calamity to israel to overtake them on account of their sins sing but when f they were in favor with god these mese things were never alluded to in depreciating terms clearly a people can serve god acceptably and yet bestow such care ou on their personal ap an bearance pe arance as is consistent with good mural moral customs the evil comes in when enjoyment anu ana luxury tire are made the aim of life when lucli things are sought after in the first place and the kingdom ot of gud in the second or what is more frequent fr equen not at all or when people seek only their own enjoyment forgetting the poor sufferer at the door what the world needs is not to be jostled irom from one extremity to another out it needs deeds a teacher who can point out the true path of salvati salvation and teach it how to serve in all things including the right use nse of such things as god has provided for the use nse of his child children renand and which are so abundant in the world in which we are 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