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Show j Preaching and Vacant Pews. I The verv strenuous young man who j has been "elected district attorney of I New York made a speech recently be-j be-j fore the men's club of a church in New j York. A great part of the audience i were church-coers, and two ministers j were upon the platform. The remarks I of the speaker were at times interrupted inter-rupted by the Finginp of hymns in an adjoining room of the edifice. Mr. Jerome said among other things and this is the portion of the speech, which, in view of all attendant circumstances.-the public office of the speak-i speak-i er and the ecclesiastic nature of his t auspices among others, we deem it well -to reproduce. :' "Lots tf others don't go to church. , I don't blame them. I don't go tg church. I don't want to go. You cannot can-not blame people for not .going to church when you consider the milk diet upon which they are fed. You can't blame it on the ministers. They can't be expected to deal out spiritual nutriment nut-riment fifty-two Sundays of the year, when you consider their small salaries, and deliver inspiration each time." "Wonderful discovery, this of the reformer re-former who has carried prayer to the hearts of all evil-doers in New York. Men do not go to church because of the feeble character of the preaching which they would hear and the ministers minis-ters are not to be blamed because they are poorly paid. |