Article June 6, 1903 Issue

Religious Items

with contributions from CLAUDIUS CLEAR, ROBERT STUART MACARTHUR, JOSEPH A. MILBURN, LAWRENCE, W. E. CHANNING, GEORGE BROWN

The Rev. Charles A. Crane in a sermon at People's Temple, Boston, recently, is reported by the Herald to have said:—

"When you look this present evil age fully in the face you are bound to say that there can be naught but endless war between it and the law of Jesus Christ. Because he would not moderate his wrath against the evils of his time, they plucked him by the beard and took him out and hung him. All the authorities of that time rested on selfishness and he preached sacrifice. Tempted to leave some truths unspoken he spared not. He could have sold out to the enemy, and the world would have never known it. And can you do less than follow him? What happens when a man preaches the Gospel? A thousand enemies assail him at once.

"When a preacher begins to care so much as the snap of his finger for the world, it's all over with him. Am I not tempted daily to soften the truth that some gentle souls may not be hurt? Have not some would-be friends told me to the face that the people will not listen to truth that tells of hell? Let the man stand forth who said to me not long ago that I could not hold my congregations without some new doctrine. Why, sirs, there is naught so new in this city as the simple Gospel plainly and honestly told."

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