Show cities liti cs but never personalities have definite place in the pulpit by REV CHARLES FRANCIS POTTER now new york the pulpit not only has the right 0 to discuss national issues of a al nature but is in duty bound to do so the idea that politics and pulpit should be kept apart and especially that the pulpit should not iddle eddle in politics is a quaint sur survival vivid of the period when religion was posed to have nothing to do with daily life when a deacon could in conscience pass the plate on sunday and deacon his apples on uon mon those were the days when christians were so BO bus busy getting ready the next wl id d that they let this one go to pot politics was consia 1 worldly y matters roat and it was not just the thing for real devout to be concerned with them women particularly risked their stations if they showed any interest in political matters we have somewhat overcome the inhibition about women in s we have not yet waked up to the fact that ministers have hav just as much it in politics as women have the s same ame people are objecting to tile the pit speaking on political matters ns used to protest if a woman d mouth on subjects that were supposed to belong only to the domain nor er husband it is true that personalities and partisanship are out oui of place in th it but that is not because it is tile the pulpit but because they are out of e anywhere among gentlefolk tile the important tiling to remember is it the pulpit is the place for proclaiming truth and justice and if il matters got get in the way of the progress of truth and justice then much uch the worse for politics |