on Evangelists
By Dr. French E. Oliver
It is a crime against God and man for pastors to follow an.unnatural, unspiritual, unsCriptural frenzy of the flesh, because sec ular, Godless newspapers popularize as an idol, any evangelist who throws sweetened '«ops- info the lap ofWarrant, bigoted, reeking Romanism for the sake of newspaper popu larity and prestige with local commercial and political combinations; who says, “I would die, if 'I could not be in the lime light.” I say it is a crime for pastors to follow such a leader and unite to shut out talented, clean, eonsecr.ated evangelists from their cities for great union campaigns, be cause the object of carnal clamor cannot get to every city in the nation in a season or so. Greater 6ospel campaigns can be held, more lasting results secured, a spiritual at mosphere created which will bless_ the churches, if pastors will give more loyal, prayerful supportftb courageous, high-class evangelists who really want to see ten thou sand souls saved infinitely more than they want to see a check for ten, twenty or thirty thousand dollars for their services. It is an insult to God-fearing men who have .spent .from fifteen to. forty years pre- paring their methods and messages for great meetings to see the ministerial and press combinations 'seek to resolve the great cause
•"VERY evangelist should ap- / peal to the mentality and the conscience of his hearers, 'and have brains enough to __present ideas and Scriptural
truth to the people instead of depending upon acrobatic performances on the plat form, and other vaudeville tactics, or street novelties to catch the superficial, bizarre or shallow non-thinking ‘people of a city. Every evangelist who thinks more of se curing dates than getting people regenerated is a curse to the'Yity ^securing his services. Every evangelist carrying unclean helpers, who get drunk or are divorced, or practice the “laying on -of hands” on pretty girls and women, is endangering the morals of the people who have ■not formed ironclad or steel-armoured convictions regarding the sacredness of the call to Christian work. Eli’s sons were slain because of their un cleanness. Uzziaji became a leper because he tried to usurp the work of the priest. Annannias and Sapphira were killed because they lied to the Holy Spirit. Would to God there might be a complete cleaning out of the low-grade, cowardly,, sensual, ly ing; compromised, skeptical, gallery-playijlg,, grand-standing pastors and evangelists,' who degrade the work of God into subtle somnipathy—for revenue only!
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