| Show A MINISTER MUST BE TIE A 31 MAN I AN Reverend M M. r. r C. C Hartzell of or Chicago Is deep In a controversy with certain members of or his church the church the South SouthPark SouthPark Park Avenue Methodist He has be boon been boona n a a. strong factor In dealing with living JivIng issues Issues Issues-Issues Issues that touch the lives es of the people outside their church relation relation relation rela rela- tion and some of his associates members membern members mem mem- bers bern and officers In the church want him to quit The They hold that the dut duty duLl of or a minister Is ended when he preaches conducts the prayer meeting meet meet- ing big encourages the Sun Sunday n school and watches over so 80 far as he can tho the spiritual needs of ot the members And on that rock they have split Mr Ir Hartzell makes this as part of h hirs statement t of or position I l believe elleve that It Is the dut duty of oC the minister r and the members of every church to bo be Integral parts of ot th the social life Ufe of the community The Idea that a a. Christians Christian's public dut duty ends end with loyalty to his church means that the tha ch church Is a n burden rather than a help to society and is absolutely opposed op op- posed to the whole Ideal of oC Christ Tin The conception of a 0 ministers minister's work thai hat L would deny him liberty of or speech an and I action In things s pertaining to our common common com eom mon human life lite strikes at the ver Ideals of or genuine leadership A A. later Iter of or tho the gospel must be bo a man first fIrs or his ministry is e. e. e Ho lie further says lIaS he believes In the broad evangelism that ministers to th tho physical Intellectual and social ne needs ds of or men In the name of or Jesus Christ always with the tho supreme religious aim olm aimas as the dominating dominating- power of or the whole hole organization I believe that the opportunity opportunity op op- op- op of oC this church la is un unsurpassed unsurpassed ur- ur passed to become one of or the most mot beneficial centers of ot evangelistic e educational edu edu- du- du and social power In the city of oC Chicago The Tte place Is 18 strategic and the time critical And we can cun not but think he Is right If Ie the Christian rell religion lon has nothing to do with the bodies of ot It Its people nothing to do with the tho influences Influences and environments which so o deeply affect human Ife Ite then It Is small help to the people And if It the service of the minister must cease at ut atthe atthe the threshold of or the church he will wil soon have havo no influence at all commensurate commensurate com com- corn com with the tho powers against which humanity contends A A. minister must be a n man H lie He must know affairs be Informed 01 on on tho public questions that command general attention Ho He must be bo honest hones and sincere and able and anti he should be a n. leading loading citizen as certainly a aa asa as ad a 8 minister of ot the tho gospel The rhe churches whose whoa pastors have hav confined themselves to ecclesiastical labors in a world more engrossed with demands other than ecclesiastical get dl dry rot rot and and express public wonderment wonderment wonderment won won- derment that it Us Its Influence is depart depart- Ing Churches whose hose directing force I take cognizance of ot the world in which L their communicants live and whIch I Itry try tn to help Its people out outside th the church as well as in It that try t to Ic S Shell help hell men to live na as well as tell them their L how ho hoto to die these thc these e churches grow gross r every err da day of or tho the year ear The They aro are factors tao fac tors tons In the nation They are engines i of or good We a sincerely sincere trust the thc Reverend Mr Hartzell may convince his people that It la Js better to have havo a man for a preacher than to have an Ineffective babbler of oC themes that In Interest Interest In- In terest crest only seventh one of or tho tim time |
