The Press and the Clergy — Telling the Truth?

1910

A certain writer has said that no newspaper which took truth for its standard would make a pecuniary success. The press might return the compliment by remarking that no minister who told the truth about his congregation, alive or dead, would occupy the pulpit much longer than on Sunday afterward. The press and clergy go hand in hand with the whitewash brush, rosy spectacles magnifying little virtues and kindly throwing little deformities into oblivion. The pulpit, the pen and the gravestone are partners in saint making.


Hopewell Church Notes

CALVARY BAPTIST

Rev. Edwin S. Fry, pastor.

OUR KING — On next Sunday the thoughts of millions of Christians will be turned to the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, and to the acclaim, of the multitude, "Blessed is the King that cometh in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven and glory in the highest." Jesus Christ reigns today. In all lands and among all classes there are multitudes who place loyalty to Christ above every other allegiance, who render to Him a willing obedience. The explanation of His power over human affections is given in the following words credited to Napoleon. "Alexander, Caesar and myself founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ alone founded his empire upon love and at this hour millions of men would die for him." This the divine force that is conquering the world. Those who feel the love of Christ constraining them recognize its conquering power and gladly join with devout Isaac Watts in saying

Jesus shall reign where'er the sun,
Doth his successive journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.

—The Hopewell Herald, Hopewell, New Jersey, March 16, 1910, p. 3.