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DALLAS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1901,
NO, 22
EDITORIAL.
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talk himself, and vary the whole
spiritual improvement and prostitute it their best work to perpetuate the life
the report came before Congress the
but when it came to the open Senate surprised to have him come forward,
the preacher in charge will make this this character, and it is high time that
service one of special study and impart many of the men of Texas learn to be
itual life, speak to four or five of
his people in advance to have a word
to say upon these subjects, select a
State occur on Sunday in the case of
men who are in the fields with their
progressed he would turn to her and
say something. We imagined that he
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A HELPFUL PRAYER-MEETING.
It must be confessed that the aver-
age prayer-meeting is a dull service.
As a rule, only a few people attend it,
and they do it more from a sense of
spir-
brief
pro-
EVANGELICAL PREACHING,
Evangelical preaching is needed
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give us a warm shake of the hand and
express great pleasure in the sermon.
We found afterward that his wife was
hard of hearing and when he realized
that she was missing some point in
the sermon he was repeating it to her.
dozen good songs
the late presidential campaign. When
Congress reconvened the first of last
month and took up the army reor-
ganization bill the canteen loomed up
in large proportions. It was referred
with the bill to the proper committee.
Then it was that big breweries, liquor
men, army officers, the Attorney-Gen-
eral and the Secretary of War put in
life and vigor to it, then it will become
one of the most interesting services
in his church. And a prayer-meeting
like this will attract a large per cent killings that take place throughout the liquor lobbyists were again successful, at the close of the service we were
DEATH TO THE ARMY CANTEEN,
The army canteen is one of the mod-
ern inventions of the devil. It found
its legal existence in an act by Con-
gress permitting our army posts to
establish saloons within the jurisdic-
tion of each camp for the use of the
soldiers. The canteen then wvas noth-
ing more than an army bar-room with
a soldier appointed to the place of its
barkeeper. It was said by those who
favored this new institution that it
would place the sale of spirits under
the control of the officers, do away
with the sutler’s bar, and thereby pro-
mote temperance. They also claimed
It is very easy to misunderstand
people. Some time ago we were
preaching to rather a small congrega-
lion, and several seats in front of the
pulpit there sat an intelligent-looking
short,
only a
it was killed by a vote of 32 to 15.
of the membership to it. Instead of
being monotonous and void of interest,
it will become inspiring and afford op-
portunity for spiritual improvement.
Only now and then do you find a
canteen was overwhelmingiy defeat- was bored to death and was making
ed. From thence it went to the Sen- some unfavorable comments upon the
duty than otherwise. But there is no to the sport of killing game. There cf this army bar-room. And with the gentleman and lady. As the sermon
and inter-
the service,
the establishment of a public senti-
ment that will ultimately overthrow
the power of the breweries and the
saloons in America.
better citizens in this respect. Espe-
is an occurrence of like nature taking
place somewhere in Texas. The sta-
tistics on this subject, if properly col-
lected, would make very hideous read-
ing if tabulated and published. Our
people ought to think upon these mat-
ters and make reformation.
guns. Hundreds of otherwise good This shows what can be done when
men, in the past decade, have gone people set their heads to a thing. The
prematurely to their graves on ac- people are stronger than the United
excuse for a dull prayer-meeting. If are other days suited to purposes of committee they prevailed. But when
demonstrated by the fact that in old all of our prayer-meetings are per-
McKendree Church, Nashville, one of functory and poorly attended services,
our strongest and most wealthy city To attend them is about as interesting
congregations, the venerable pastor as passing a - graveyard after dark,
has penitents and conversions nearly 0 for a revival of life and power in our
every Sunday night, and his ser- prayer-meetings! Our preachers need
vices attract a large audience. He to arouse themselves upon this subject
preaches to the unconverted and and rehabilitate this service with spir-
then walks down to his altar- plat- itual fire and helpfulness.
prayer-meeting of this character. The count of the practice of hunting on states Congress and Senate. They are
average one is repellant and prosy. It is Sunday. We do not assume that stronger than the liquor combine and
destitute of interest and life. No they get killed simply because they the President’s legal adviser. The fol-
amount of pleading and exhortation are thus desecrating the Sabbath, but lowing is the law on the subject, and
upon the part of the pastor in behalf nevertheless they get killed while out the Attorney-General will hardly annul
of such a prayer-meeting will bring hunting on Sunday. Just within the it this time: “The sale or dealing in
people to it. There is nothing in it for past two or three weeks, a bright and beer, wine or any intoxicating liquors
them but to be bored an hour or so promising young man, high in society, by any person in any post exchange
with two or three long and oft-repeated went out from this city with his gun or canteen or army or upon any premi-
prayers and two or three songs, with a on Sunday, and was brought back a ses for military purposes by the
lengthy and rambling talk by the bloody corpse. Last Sunday another United States is hereby prohibited,
preacher. They can be more comfort- one went out under similar circum- The Secretary of War is hereby di-
able at home, and there they stay, stances and was brought back with rected to carry the provisions of this
But suppose he arrange a series of top- his face nearly torn away and one eye section into full force and effect.”
ics bearing upon some phase of spir- gone. And nearly every Sunday there t « t________
ceedings with a live experience meet-
ing. This would give the people a part
in the service and train workers in the
devotional department of the Church.
The preacher makes a mistake when
he does all of the talking and two or
three people do all the public praying
in a prayer service. He has the morn-
ing and evening hours on Sunday,
which he devotes exclusively to
preaching to hit congregation, aid on
Wednesday evening the people ought
to be trained to take aprominent part.
This ought to be specifically their ser-
vice, but our preachers are slow to
learn this simple lesson. Hence nearly
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form and pleads with sinners to
come forward and be saved. And the
same is true in many of our leading
congregations. That sort of preaching
and that sort of altar work expect re-
sults and the expectation is not dis-
appointed. Our preachers make a mis-
take if they overlook the importance
of urging sinners to accept Christ at
one or both of their Sunday services
and of giving them the opportunity to
evince their desire to be saved. But
even this sort of preaching and work
need not supercede the special revival,
but will in reality prepare the way for
it. Let all of our regular services then
conspire to the edification of believers
and the salvation of sinners.
our regular Church services. Where
the pastor has one stated appointment
he ought to give one of the services
each Sunday to the preaching of the
gospel, especially to the unsaved in his
congregation. Of course where he has
several appointments he has to depend
largely for work of this special sort
upon his protracted meetings. But this
is not so much true in our stations
where the pastor holds two or three
services with his congregation every
Sunday. Some one of these services
each Sabbath ought to be devoted ex-
clusively to the unconverted. This
ought to be the case, whether the au-
dience be large or small. It is better
to save one sinner in a congregation
of twenty-five than to preach in a
sensational way to a crowded house.
Such a service will not only redound to
the benefit of the unsaved, but it will
cultivate spiritual life in the entire
membership and keep, the people en
rapport with our Methodist custom in
altar work. A Methodist Church with-
nut altar or mourner’s bench service
is a travesty upon a Methodist meet-
ing. In the years gone by this method
of reaching and saving the people was
wonderfully blessed of God. That we
have not outlived its efficiency is
them through
seven or eight
prayers, make
SUNDAY HUNTING,
In many portions of Texas the Sun-
day hunting desecration is carried on
to an alarming extent. One reason
why this is done is that Sunday is a
day of immunity from work with a
large class of our men, and they take
advantage of the occasion for pur-
poses of sport. Hence, when Sunday
comes, they shoulder their guns and
hie away to the fields. But the chief
reason for this desecration is, those
who engage in it have not the fear of
God before their eyes, and they have
no respect for the sanctity of the Sab-
bath. Thus they put this sacred in-
stitution to uses that are profane and
wicked. That we need wide reform on
this matter, none who believe in the
proper observance of the day will ques-
tion. It is not right to take the only
day given to us for benevolent and
cially is this true when we come to ate and then to the committee of that dullness of the sermon. The expe-
realize that nearly all of the accidental body. In the committee room the rience was very annoying indeed; but
ROMANISM AND THE LIQUOR
BUSINESS.
In the recent fight by the temper-
ance people of this country to kill the
army canteen in the Congress of the
United States, Archbishop Ireland was
their formidable opponent. We are
not surprised at this when it is re-
membered that the breweries and sa-
loons of this country are laregly own-
ed and run by members of the Roman
Church. It was perfectly natural,
therefore, for this Roman prelate to
come to the rescue of breweries and
saloons when one of their chief
sources of revenue, in the form of the
army canteen, was in jeopardy in our
two Houses of Congress. He did hot
want the financial interests of a large
bulk of his constituency endangered
by the prohibition of drunkenness and
debauchery among the soldiers of this:
country. And in obedience to the be- :
hests of the liquor and beer business
that it would yield a handsome reve- he used his utmost endeavor to prevail
nue which would go toward the ex- upon Congress to confine the canteen
penses of the post. So Congress grant- in the army posts and exchanges. But
ed the privilege to the posts and thus Rome is not quite omnipotent in this
the canteen was created. But we did country. In lands of ignorance and
not hear much of this canteen till the superstition her word is law, but in a
war between the United States and free country where people lead the
Spain. Its baneful influence over the Bible and Protestantism stands to the
volunteer soldiers was such that front she can not always dictate the
mothers and temperance people all policy of government. And if the
over the country raised a cry of oppo- time ever comes when her voice is
sition to it. Such was the pressure potent in the regulation of the affairs
brought to bear upon Congress that of this land it will be a sad day for
the matter was taken up and a string- liberty and enlightened Christianity,
ent law passed to eliminate it. But Let us rejoice in the fact that both
the resourceful Attorney-General Houses of our Congress heeded the
placed a strained interpretation upon voice of Protestant Christianity rather
it and it was rendered null and void, than that of Rome in the abolition of
So the canteen continued in all of the the army canteen. His Highness ex-
posts of the United States army. But erted his influence in vain, and we
the opposition to it continued to rage trust that henceforth Protestantism
until it well nigh became a feature in will he equally victorious over Rome in
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Rankin, George C. Texas Christian Advocate (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1901, newspaper, January 24, 1901; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1586115/m1/1/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.