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Show uu RACE FOR SOULS. The Real Reason for the Oy8tor Soup Festival. "Success .Magazine" in the past two years has shown the suTferlng of countrv ministers and their families. Overchurchlng is th big cause of this trouble, says Charles Samuel Tator in an article pntltled "The. Mad ltaco for Souls." There Is money enough In tho count n to support tho churches, church-es, but as a' rule flic people In tho churches do not have it, aud to get It they resort to all kinds of methods, meth-ods, from guessing the number of beans In a jar. to flshlr.g in the soup plate for the elusive, oystor, all of 1 . t- which is destructive to the Christka h mission and humiliating to ministers. y Tho churches seom to he so blinded , Jj by the terrific fury of tbe race that vj they fail to see what they are lonini i by following the pace, and when thep .' stop for breath, instead of takingj j stook, thay lift thair voices and rinff. 1 ""Wfe live at this poor dying rate; 11 without appreciating the humor of il their sons;. ;i Ministers know that they are ex J peotod to m&be a goosj aiaHteel j Bbowlngf in tho year books of tholr wffi denomination, so, unoonscloufllr, in I E' this keen competition for souls, ' W churches havo lowered the standard f j of admlsion. Excellent rules of coa II doct written in the church disciplines, rt becomo dead letters, and a member la m rarely, if ever, disciplined for nn M Cnriaiinn conduct. Serious minded 1r church members aro regretting tha - fact that there is ibut little difference V bofcween tho conduct of the members i; of the cteurob.es and tfe.q cWiens ot . ' tho "world." p |