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TI[E SAVORLESS SALT 'l REV. THlOMASDIXON,JR.,ON CORRUP- t! TION IN THE CHURCH. tl lNintmh Srmon of t the rler ri on the "Gates ti of H11.l11 In Modern ahbylon"--'hrrhre ti Ma ,SmNil (Ilubs snul ('liquwa--Itomanlim '11 Without hlome's Power. T Ne.w Youi:. Juno IM.-Rev. ThomuLn i.l Dixon. Jr.. ire;ached this taorning the Is ninth Nermon of the seri,,s on "Tha Gates of He 11 In MSodern Bulbylon." ''ihe subject of the morning sernnln wa; pi "T'he F;ailnre ,of the Church In the ('ity." ': The text chosen was from Matthew v. in 13 "'Y', are the salt of the earth. hlut if .I " the salt have lost it ato or wherewith nl ' shall it bhe salted? It is thenceforth goo! is for unothing I,:t to be cast out andl trod.- c1 den under foot of men." TI One of the most serious causes for the p1i present condlition of the city is to be T found in the failure of the church of I, Christ so keep pace with its rapid devel- . g opunent. The fact is that the failure of e, Protestant Christianity in the centers of sp civic lifo in America has been one of the in nmost painful facts in the history of the !. nation in the last quarter of a century. st There are fewer Methxodists in New York vi city today than there were 20 years ago. fit There are fewer Baptists in New York city today than 20 years ago. And this tr in the face of the fact that in the mean- of time the city has practically doubled its Ai population- grown to be the metropolis th of the new world. The truth is, while ev- if erything else has advanced with niarvel- th onu strides the church has lost ground. ai And what is true in New York is true tlh really in many other great cities. The anm essence of Christianity lies in its power th to save. The work of Christianity is to tu save the world. When the salt is tm- ar moved from the earth, it is not to be th wondered at the corruption that results. so There is a terrible failure today in the ne' work of applying Christianity to the th needs of the people in the city. tic The cad fact is forcing itself on the ge teatts of many who love the Lord that thousands of the churches in our centers in of life are today practically dead. of The trouble about it is, too, that they to are still above ground. They are dead, th and no permit to bury has been issued. wI The consequence is that there is natural bu embarrassmeet. We see this painful we tact- hit First - In the empty pews in the wl churches of the city. The primary idea wi of the church of Christ is an assembly. les The word church in its original means sa assembly. The trouble is they have lit eased to assemble. The congregation he In the average church in our great the cities is conspicuous for the people who all are not there. Empty pews are the the f rst thing that strikes the eye ,rf the till obserter. There are variotus excuses frn made for this condition of affairs. It is, wt owlag to the point of view from which me you look at it as to the answer you ab would mtake. A man asked another how the he accountAl for the small attendance she at our churches Be said be could not ret acount for it. He said he went one set night himself. and he never could under- I stand shat could attract those people we that wore lere. ian The language of empty pews is a sad sot e ito the church. They are mocking pea ghosts It is a chilling experience to He amy man to come from a countrydistris cat Into the city and face these solemn evi- "L fness of the decadence of church life. cot I shall never forget the first sermon I u. seached In a city church. The house anl ssateld abonut 1.00. There were about 80 tio S ey were scattered over the SThey shivered in the I eaold and I shivered in sympathy. It Is in sedim to say the servic e was a dismal no aillus !str smd-Many of our churches have ces - sease social clubs and cliques Man's : the esaal sature is a mighty lever when it It Sproperlly used. It should be sutilied bel - e spiritual ends But a social club is tm S thing, and an asmembly of people tie - Il edlis the nam of Jesus Christto eam .. weCork. to follow his teachings and a * medium through which his spirit sle in the world-this is anoth- chi Every part of man'a social an S se a hd hould be utilised, es L1 e gretsrtl fat s over- dit ad he chumsh deqeratses ito 1 Th re eliqs. is whlh thire are parties it I wih a sorts of games. which there it a n sMvate awth all ort of swiadltng. thi W.Istes we have her. th evi dence of al , v It A peer marecntly rsedl tn ane of a a r .e.i.nrche bease aome of his r le iaited on having a dog howi ru ebrek. Be sid he could stand a ili god deaL but he drew the lime at adog ha hw. A ayeng mawa rsently f d th - is. Selgi i r as e bease he in ited t e weseteg a mrasahe The cgrega- ce SIdM at il6 a preacher with that ch et eau L Ke e se lsfaedtopartwith ch u ainod they Iparted wittheir the uoehrches, many of them, bae he. mapn nnles ofI theagupelofgeogay. ielis eis moig. One ofh two th toeZD tr y By ths faet ther the o ite btr heyusthe mt they ee to e . nad scarely he disonseed. he ii gspe a wllare? adly. it Itme anser* every acaw- he he enemyof mean tet mages I let every mr a eliae t answer, Has JsCrht, who he h ewltbMs cherehl a sll t LA the charh militant to. he t ye wID havwthe mawr. Does teer paes teoday Ask thoseas Swhe pea. le u.aever Sseday. There eer wa a yphem whekiu such seIiutees . im I (Chritianity. It ii the cry of the traitr t that leaves the ground to the c'nemy tl tralil whom i- has fled. We' are tol I that tie. chur :e. leatve thes.e iistric.ts II. ct(uie .he IWVople are gone. an l y't thley v were never so c4r.,wdled in tilh llistorv oif r the city. As far as thei eye can rea;ch to . the north, to tthe south, to the ':ast, to r º the west. rolls the 't.lless tid. of hu- I II IIItm . wave o.' wave. II) storis high ii 'Th. sinipl.' faIt ii thbv have. been 1 dlrowlnel in an oCean of hi:tian;ity hunt- I I iag for piolde. Awl yet th, ::iulplle' truth Sis they hayve not tried to find lpeople. MA",NIFI 'I"ENT MAYt I'5. E IIL. Fourth-We are conviltnced! of their t practical sleath from the' fact that thry are so still. There is no lmotion, mh v. e ln.nt,,tir. about th'm. Thier.,' .in ot I.. I arowth withoullt InIv,,.Vn,,t. .\t1on is a " necIssary psstulate of hl,. at nd growth I Sisa I pric:t( of lifte. Many of th(ls' churches halve grown onld awl nurnhl They never have a sensation. l )ad l', plo never h:ve sen.sationMl of alllny sort. t The dying obljtect to s1en.ustti, sl. iln pr .)ortion as Ip4ople are, dlead thely are fr'ee -froll en4nftions. Christiianity is i an Oation. Christ wwas a 1snsationalist. Ile i siSke on ts.ns'ltional thmllt'es. le sl.k,' c in a sensatl inal way. The grelat prol, hlms of rseligion are in thlrn'ul"v's ,soul stirring. No main ran bslieve themlll il vital ways and1 not have his soul set ,on I fire. I From the ~wginning of Christ's mini- t try to its close his history is the histiory ' of one sensation sIcrC'eling anIlther. 1 And yet churches built in his name in this slay ls'lieve that they are disgrac.,l ti if they have a snensation of any sort ian c the pulpit or in the p-ws. They are cold I and stiff and numb antd formal. This is c the hand of death. The dead are stiff a alnd dignified. Int propo)rtion as 1in dll lil' " the'y grow stift. Slw'ed. force, are lp,, tulates of life. Many of our church.l s u are malgmiitllfHc ent mti1lus3in1.11 in which '' the deadl move with silent tread, sit in o solemn silence in solemn pews. They 1 need life. They need a sensation to do tl them good; to have any sort of a sensa- I tion for a change. nollte of them never li get it except an aI'cident happens. fi I saw the other day how that a parson n in a certain town long ago hldu a habit s of putting off till tomorrow what ought a to have been done today. Having sonic thing to do with a bottle of aqua fortis, ti which he should have used on Saturday, ti but which he put off till Sunday, he S went into the pulpit with this bottle in iL his pocket. In the midst of his sermon, h while his hands were uplifted and he ti was about to close a fine sentence, he P leaned heavily against the pulpit, and si smash went the bottle. With hands up- tl lifted, still with his unfinished sermon, tl he rushed down the Iulpit stairs. through to the center aisle, out of the church, and T all the congregation followed him. Had lP the good man gone crazy? On he rushed T till he came to a pond a short distance P1 from the church, Into which le plunged, ni while the congregation stood in amaze- tl went, wondering if their pastor was g about to commit suicide. He explained ef the action of the aqu, fortis and in a tl short time secured some dry clothes and returned to the pulpit and finished his - sermon. ai I think myself a little of the aqua fortis h would be good for some of the brethren. Pr and it would be wholesome perhaps in t some of the pews. We need the old negro's hi prayer to be fulfilled here in New York. di He prayed for the northern brother who tl came dosi to preach for him. He said:' h "Lord b1 dis yer white man dat's a' come down from de north to preach for ci us. Fill him with de flame of de spirit. la annint him wid de kerosene ile of salva- ig tion and set hint afire." at rIOrT IN TaH CHURCH. Fifth-They show that they are dead et In the fact that they have no eartohear, is no heart to pity, no arm to save the ai struggling, suffering thousands that w surge about their doors. There is a ceaseless cry about the city that goes to the heart of one that knows its distress us It is like the low moaning of the wind bi before the storm, and e whose ear is tl tuned to its weird music can hear it in t the noonday rush above the din and roar; c: can hear it in the silence of the night t above the city's groan. for it never'P sleeps. And yet there are hundreds of churches that hear this cry and hear it ' anmoved. They are complacent in their . ease. They have gotten in the old tra- t ditional jog trot and think it is sll right. cE T jog smoothly along and never hear b It thunder, and if anybody suggests that P it thundered they are shocked, becanse o 'they lave been disturbed. They are, wedded to the mechanics of a tradition I progreasthat is no progress at all-- a ithat is simply the refuse of small minds and rg persoalitie ~ Many of these churcheb have beean or runpted by the forces of our corrupt civ ilisatim. Fashion sad prid, and wealth ihave made their tanrads and erectel ii their standards around the very altar o b Sthe Most High God. A pstor was re- h cently drivel out of oe of our great curchbecaose of a old aight inthe chbrch. Four years ago a minority of the members of the church attemptled to force blm out, ad on what grounds do ymppese they brought their actien? t, he was mt a erator; second, P that he pasd too much attention to the poor. Amesig factl And yet Jesus P mid whnm John's disples came to ask If he be the Meslak, "Tell John the poor t have t gospel preached uto them." The whole trath is that thee churches ' have pushed back the people and agg. lected them for their own clilae and their owr coterie ntil th spirit of God i has . grief dspsrtsd. They have hut t the capacity tocoarey the spirit toother hearts. e tath-Many of r ch ,rchm amseded. aad we know it. becase they have dead peachrs We eolaim today, with the ed seer. "Lerd, they have illed thy prophets!' The power ot the pulpit p t Ip rr ato lfe when properlyap q Thsis a powa today in tbe ete nmlto e power od the Chrk 1 lrg wbn It Is ueled r aBitils sea . that they - , ~ pm~h.IS agess yeasurenesI I1 tar iorll iLf r Ilreat nllwsppi-rs Iitiow ;i, rl-s n l,; ini llit v. Tie pr'sent ttnlition of it i!y in not bse st::t.," 1and wavt-ld ;sil i by Ilvying it ii tin iother shoitldrs. WV.. the non ist-rs of IfowI. are in tint 1 . 1 l-: r "t 'r tai'ly r. p-, unsible' for th:it fa,t. If ti ioswnI r -iutiiiit "ttlllu to the' il t -try l.ii1 ih'lln 4s14)1 iln ti:c hing1 the, Ip 1,.4. '. il wounhul nt li tuairv thel faict. In n;t cli'lt tines the, pruphilt of G;",l wc '', the ilu,;ibr.+ of the rtace-. The itr :,nith,,ity was thi aluthority f truith. :ndl it v:.. suprit. The cprophuit ,id, o ' :to and prin,',s with his pow.r. The r pth :t of tl h I lu ,lernl dal y balsl th.e :1111l", i L htl lII h:as the .ans; 4 I(, ( uI' nlltll" . lie h.+l the umiane ,liv. The pr, ph.et1 tf lol:y are i,,In if talent. They tare tagnlill tently enluowd,. Th,'y ar,' tIll. List trainelI miniistryh the world hits e,i r st-in. Why this lpit.tlable we:lknist ini our cintir of life'? Alas, tbty h:r . killel the prolphets! There i. noiii i-tt - int the fact. iinle of thnlm have INi'en choke,,I to dl.ellh Iby orth,,hlx ,'oll:ils. tiTltANxtILEDi Ti; Dl;:ATII. ProiIstaltlisn itn m aIs fail,-d inl tlr great i cities often il i :tause it hai, i:1 it t, intt i.I titomanisim without tilhe piowr oif ' ,li'. Tihe brtrthren havo l iten iusv k,.lping the faith. They htave kiept a lar-e l.itk of hiulnds tol chase heirelties ouit of the fields. TIhe haveasi'tllt their moiergy in siletiLcting tnli that iOl)i it f hllow aft, r their saet. gor the last 21) years th* churc'h has 1 teen htny Inaullnlufirt.tulrini. preacheirs who wear th iolr cilb 'i 1,rtitiri creeds. ,Sn llltof our suiniilaries hate advlertiseil tlhat their collars are warrautl i ed tic hil li. t1a1. whien the victims h::v' I glie gi i r,1i t ho gr tlillalr lla is ia l,, of i inl novalle nli:trlil, they are of n t ec'ssitv chioked tit depth. You iian go1 l v 1S11 1 of thesechuri-hes1 anil hear themn wheteze. lui cail h.ar the death rattle in their I thrioats. Th*ir teLacher told themi that i a sernmon is a work of art. and they hav"e I is 'tin timiaking it a work of art so skill- i fully that there i. Int ta ploint or ai lor nor anyuirre als iut it. It makes not the I slightest iimpressio i tlii thet hard con- e e'sciece of mien and woin who hiear it. , When some iof these issir folltcw. g-,t I tired itf the collar and try to take it oi, a there is a sensation of the wrong sort. I Stunt of these preachers in our cities have Ioen uiurdeirel to death. They t have ln'iin nliitrihre.d to death liv conven- i tinality nd traditionialim. all In all t i ls'ws in these s,lein in ausole.umns there t sit strainiglers whose hands are skillful in I the art of throttling the plsrsonalityof the miiln who iill the puilits. Men come s to the city full of riural entl:usiasms. t Theyv are fools enough to Ibelieve in the l is,.sililities of siivinig mien ail14 wonlien. They get into one of these iceix.s and n . preach for a few mtuonths, until tlh very r mnarroiw in their iln1es is chilled, and I then they try to get the l)eolile in. They i grow rentless. They make a desperate T effort, hint the dear brethren sit down on ( themn. and they are smothered to death. ( There are fewer Methoslists in New York now thian theire were : l years ago. and yet a stirring Methodist evangelist has been packing a great theater full of people during the Iast few months, and the dear old mtone ks arka clamnoring for his head in a charger. They say he is disturbing the cmnic dust that has set- c tied on their churches. They say that I he is drawing away their constituency, I and they are going to make a motion to a cast him out of the synagogue. A man passed by a church where there was i great excitement the other day. He s asked if a revival was in progress. The sexton said no; they were trying a her- e etic. We have life of a ceriain sort. It I is expended in hunting out the heretics c atnd crucifying them and letting the I world go to the deviL sTHE TarrnEE2 REASONS. j Some of those men are scared to death. not because they are weak and craven, j but because tf are human. They have the 13 re for not doing many things they want to do--a wife and !1 children. They are anxiousa to please the pews. and they imitate the great preacher of the sixteenth century. A l fellow wrote to me some time ago to! recommend him to a church looking for a preacher and begged me to write hina in advance the day the committee would come to hear him preach that he might be on the lookout for strangers in the 1 pews. Many of oaur preachers are afraid of the power os criticism. It is hard to I be cursed, to be lied about, to be'misrep resented and slandered by the tradition al forces that maintain things as they I are and by ai blackgard press that is ve ready to take up any cry against a I minister of Christ. And, ialasm! some of these men are worked to death. The work to be done in a modern city church cannot be done I by one man. Whatever our fathers may have done, the man who stands ait the head of a chumrch in a modern cityand I attempts of himself to master its work I has undertaken the imposible. It can- 1 not be done. The ouly churches in the city of New York-the Epiropaland the Roman Catholic-that ve made any iprogres have been the churches In which the number of workers in a given perlsh have been adequaste to the work to be accomplished. There are churches in this city that require 1O men in the capacity of associates and assistants, in which a solitary little Protestantpreech er stands up and hammers away until they carry him .6 to the cemetery and bury his little wornout body. ,.1e they take him to the im e - ayi, t. sonse sanitarium, where he has toe lux ury of an ia-*ald's life and poverty and It time 'or our churches to wake to theast of their failure ,ad to adapt theumsives to the ehanged conditions of moder city life. We do not need any mere ecclesiastical tombe buildings. The people do not want them. They wai net ge Into them after they are built. They are ,selem !al". We nee tied ... - "" - We ashi i pr. s. 'i'h 1:: " Ti ii, h ni. ' f 'r 1t.4 to I, . S ill t!ih: :;. ti 111 : . n , II by :i1 I1 ltlt !4 W" ni.ly ...Li ."*', :ni. ot I., afraudl f - IJ..l;i.i 4 a . 'nl.lItil; ti II"l wVloi :14 ~'r 4 l'nits, ti, ii.i ' frin.' ils of th iln.Ln1111 - of ln rig4 lt.',41 i ',.,e-that I., t"P nl" ((iin - 104(11 , ' "" t'. t1", lhvI,\ , to 10 th" Work S ,f thll. 1. t r t I I rl. w:c . I 1 W h."..^r "h' r1i0rrh "1'terInarie, to , I" it14 w,,"r' :t vwill I,, ,1.ne0. ITh,' f.,wv r - i. ait hiar' it" w will ' I itt Itllil. it. It - i ri It :1 : lF(.:t iL, , tf l f l stI o,, f Iiwer; it I.s thc r".f l+l I of tlih, b'hri.,iarn t. us. the, lp'w,'r. . htt *ill'hl xpl,,ile,, th,' r i'i, S unotr Iill! ir:tI urt11 l ch are I thi IIch I:r'l h1 Iel tl I:i thaIit'0,l ,ictol, tIhli .t lo c ric, " 4 1 S turrenti wiath th. ,hvbli, l hl:Ittler. lTh - ('hrist=ars hays s.imply to tilch th, I.,l" I tri' i' rrL nt ,of thii, Spirit of thi. Mir t r ith I.'.1, : wl th, hirihl ,n hnirlty l ' p I dr.vn in th1, huni 'an so il will 14. ex ', plhl: t:nhi'hi,,n r,'Nks that havecb Sstr l( ,t. I ::r lpr, 1r4 in i s, -iety Ihriugh a tho' t"n' ur,.. af thi p,It will he cleared. I4 thl' of ithlin l it l ll t 1 V I nt. A hlit1l' (h 0j1 with htier tiny llihala i start i t e the ra lt ( 1 l"11 411.atldw:ay Ill d iWlt li tk :'irl linnin, ov'-'archir trck. Tho e ('li':t l i pl op nelii t:l i team ai lrlVll ll411 lthi' S:tIl' thi 'l i work. The 'c hrisf an Iii i 11.il i- v i 11 :r n ,l -: il :1 a 'hri.. tiin--,II t.I , w eri 1i, :lutl th -l pir t fl l 1 (i' will I tr , , irk. Tih " tt iiill, with rII n i.i1ply" is th it w" !" ,; i' ,t l:noy in S vitl -llc nt., t with tli.'1" rhl. 1 Thie L ii:, of ( tie till) nIil rN yItm. A Ni'rtn4lll - Vih hllt tlil. littl ' h i.vtl yutl synti. t"Asn t:1 nlt tiler tof stisrk tlld l sty(itu dent ( ilf lor 111: 1 r'cliioik s lft i -lav rec.ntly holt e in ludit . all til lh:t i I int('rei pst tment" sa ill rI. T. oI rd -un. nIt iin rlfr-r ure s.o il 't fficti( oftht twhir tn ilor least , paymlent 'r,,,ltt sy"'tlpim h1i.1: ul.in thile I," pl'' through1tut the 1 1n1. I h:iv- studi.ed this phA ii.,,tint'lh pehilr of tsial pr in tre' 1 of the l:1ir',!t cirie, in the country an4!' '!fina t lih' :Vt Ir tll an ,il iiop lu n H t til work :nong tll poo.r (lassts. To do this I vrd it Cohinilldto rto epti l leWotr l visit dhl :ily ' a c'rtai nul " "I inrst;. wlh'er paVcoolnookt fell d okl or itof Mthly. Modjeska's on whil. tha p lylI nts wore m211 weret of .1:. Letil g oller and speak rtilo Julin Mlar lor iae. w an ti heing paid for andt not ('(s w.'e.!e r t i month. Nown, all mieds gi Jlia were slod i the snmal holies whrpoe the partis rtahl n nt ih aycash, Nlint 1::1 tcraving for inth furni llin 4, r. whi ish the Chiaa l wtoman's lp ' iblancl, of in:lury. had bee was o"neof asf th evil Wes.:lts A . llcon1 wS that this littl, playn.,nt s- - ten taught tI'm to shirk their dupo y of promptly praym it. It taught thmha ta put theandll wit'seek afttingr weak ntil tande whol wmmier due ntime There'sn to a wod py went by all orts of xust to and presenter fug te pratie of woman h is progress. and ing. A tc. tinuhed rperita of thei kind of Tueying iaHo niceo th is ºtop what them al lelonic terbdm and cemblem."- .re Lnot lor bya o-De f the highet rat npl i wll.dg Worth avre genera Oermen ardn thecrt a Chicago reptin. "Say, who is the tall woman"f "That's Katt M'sr.len." " Whois shh'?" "I fortt; either a cookbook woman or othe of Me. Modjeks's comporany. Let's gioover and speak to Julia Mar ot we. My. but shes they do menot cand not a spot of mak*.up on her!" "Yes, but tell me, I've glt them all s i micethe I Julia Mringowe thewomhan who maspkon who hmans the price cht y a "No, yon itdge pd shets the opera sinth er. I wish the ('hicatgn Woman's club - had been as gethnes as the West Ennd ta club was. I'm dying for a cup of chocot - "And I for an K.oc at al. Oh what a o - "Yes. and it's getting jnt tmmier and jammier all the timer Th re's a woman d walked all over me just to get presented, en's firogeI s". "It was ohe hawomn's practogress sed o mc" id hate it! Seet. "tht here's Nikita, the comedy' latresl bow nice it is fto know them acll d what they do so welflng-Exchr on n. ordi : Maryonic indogls, and raiinemblems iare not iou ingere the t strimbole of ithe rch r worn Shletfully, rlt the wearers i ermally i Snew meloon las the secret order ihand ine Sthe air persome timake them importe, nd gives them stlnding in theem brotherati bood. They wer five nevers. mst enough toen g ot wearond them. butAnd the agent doe not cotell Sthe westoryaing of them. 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