Show 4 iby elbert hubbard j if at the recent annual presbytery attention was call d to the fact faett that hat more than two thousand presbyterian churches in america are without pastors this was regarded as a very la men table ondi condL condition tion there are peo pie however who in these things tind find cause for encouragement also comes president waters of the state agricultural college at manhattan kansas making a statement to the effect that in Illi illinois there aresee are sev enteen hundred abandoned churches one thousand in missouri and about the same number in iowa and fully as man in the state of kansas doctor waters argues that this does not necessarily mean that the coun try is becoming bv coming irreligious but the fact seems to be that we are de mending a higher standard of preach ing than ever before mankind has had a surfeit of theo logical discussion dogmatic oratory concerning a world to come colonger no longer holds our attention we ern economics we want to know how to be well and happy here and now A religion that interests itself large ly in man mans a condition after deat death hhas has been outlived and is novi outworn instead of three four or five gling churches in a comman ty with the preachers on half pay and ne ces cessa rily repressed and depressed it is urged that these churches corn coin cine bine on oil a cornmon commonsense sense basis and se aura one man e pastor a 1 id I pay him enough to put him on an easy financial footing I 1 believe in votes for women and and have eo so advocated on the platform with pen and typewriter for a ter of a century ano 0 o sane reason has ever been put forward why wo men should not share with men th right to express their political pre feren ferencek ces but in their agitation women nomen may overstep the bounds of reason like unto the lady who see ng ing a fly on the bald pate of her liege landed on that fly with a base ball 11 bat if a woman plays the part of a termagant turns incendiary be comes a rioter destroys the prop erty etty of innocent people mutilates the letters of the public even tho she win in her demand she isn t the game name woman oman that she was before if you would be happy let not hap be your aim to be famous is to be slandered by people who do not know you men do not vary much in virtue their vices only are different we must judge men at their best beat a aid id not at their worst it is 13 beyond dispute that the na tive born americans do not possess the natural qualifications and ten dennies that make good servants we have a surplus of originality and in sometimes productive product iv e and sometimes not but as a P people eople we will not take orders when an or der la is given the average american starts aline a line of back backtalk talk |