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of men are leaving the ministry, and quotes a statement that ten thousand young men are giving up their churches to enter the field of education. He says that in one Western town seven men withdrew from the ministry to enter other forms of work. He tells us that the charters of the great univer sities show that they were founded to educate and train men for the ministry. He speaks of the red-blooded young men from the army, and that the min istry has no attraction for them because, of the smallness of the salaries. He asks: “ Why support five little churches in a town, with five janitors, and five sets of furnaces, and five little choirs, and five ministers, when we could all come together and have one common church, with wonderful music and a well-paid minister?” Dr. Hillis writes a long article, but he does not tell us the real reason for the existence of this state of affairs. Of course, Brother Hillis, if you lived in one of these small towns, you would want all the people to come -and sing in your church, and pay you for preaching,—hut many of us wouldn’t care to hear you. You have a false note in your message, and you,are one of the men who are responsible for the present condition of the church. You have slipped a cog and lost your hold on the Bible, and so have these great universities and colleges. They have been telling the young men about the mistakes of Moses, and the prophets, and Jesus Christ, and the-Apostles. They have been building them up in unbelief. Why should a young man go out with a Bible in his hand (which he does not believe) and tell people his opinion of its teaching, and what he thinks Cod ought to have done and said; and what Jesus Christ and Paul would have said if they had lived in this century and graduated from Yale or Harvard or Union? >, Would a young man presume to enter the profession of law and stand before the judge and tell him that the Supreme Court had made a great mistake, and he wanted to correct it? Would he take a text book on en gineering and tell his associates that the principles were all wrong? The reason that young men are not entering the ministry is because there is no real foundation for their doing so. If the ministry is presented
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