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-ii- thfe 9 win tut 11 lacb or v 8ubday beading i there a hfut- why men da not go to t lurch hciecuolu from culcuo to an audience composed of almost as many men m women dr calvin s black- well at the central church of christ spoke the other evening in substance as follows last week the tribune presented ts me three questions 1 why do fewer men go to church than wowen 2 do you believe in hell 3 is orthodoxy dying out they make an interesting trio to the first a facetious answer might be iven because more men go to the penitentiary i am told there are 1700 men at joliet and only nineteen women the answer is not merely facetious it is philosophical men stay away from church because they are manded a change it was a disgraceful and deplorable fact that 20 per cent of those who are employed in chicago have to work sun day he had no doubt that if the question was tested before the supreme court of the nation it would be pronounced unconstitu tional he thought that intermeddling of religious women in matters of statecraft had something to do with the las piety of men when women ceased to be wome they lost their influence over men ha believed in a place of punishment cause he believed in the new testament be- caus9he believed in good and because it wa a logical deduction from the observation of human life if there was a place of reward as the scripture taught there must be a place of punishment a future place of pun ishment should be preached with all solemni ty not declared as a threat but as an awfu fact but a belief in uod was logically fol lowed by a belief in a future state of punish ment sausage w finet amen c18igssfam lssnew im portitious d enjflth shecrw t aruencm cwingp orders 511ed for any desired quantity irvnta lor prices j james haur t so jj j 11 to 4 st lawrence market toronto v m mm worse thai women they are grosser they lack the fineness of the feminine nature moat certainly orthodoxy was not on the they are not so holy in tendenoy they are decline it was on the increase aggressive kept from religion by the same mora infer- and progressive the impression that it is iority which oarries them to the penitentiary on the decline arises from the fact that hete the greater liberty which social laws per mit men to take accounts too for their disregard of a propriety like church going a man can dissipate all siturday night lie under cover through sunday and appear at his office monday with a head as big as a flour barrel and nothing is said but let his female typewriter do the same thing and he says you may go the retult of so much liberty during the week is that by the time sunday comes around mans conscience is too sore to go to church and have it pricked let social etiquette how ever bind men to the same rules of social purity it does women and they will come to church in larger numbers another reason of course is business the whip of competition makes many men drive themselves down by saturday night they may be morally clean men but their physical and nervous natures demand sab bath quietness to dreas up for church would be a task the increase of sunday work is also an important factor employments wbichen- gage men over sunday are multiplying these workers not onlv stay ywjy but the fact that they are putting the sabbath 0 business use has its effeot on others it iiasnt the same holy sepirateness from other days it has to women who are mire removed from business then there is another kind of man a sort of boso man with a thin veneering of supposed intellectual life indifferent to everything but himself h9 stays at home to read the sunday newspapers its thirty two pages afford him recreation and make him think he is keeping up with the times a great many well- meaning men stay away from church because they happen to be on some committee of one of the benevol ent societies as these societies are increas ing the class is growing the committee usually meets for a few minutes on sunday its just enough to satisfy the conscience of its members it doesnt take much spiritu al food to satisfy some men they say a bear can live on one good meal a whole win ter and a little committee work goes a long way they moreover notios their wives moth er and sisters getting ready every sunday morning to go to church and they are apt to reflect about it in their masculine way the unspoken form of the reflection usually is this thing isnt suited to my colossal intelleot my foursquare mind it may do for my wife or my mother or my sister bub im too strong for that kind of thin soup diet at this point the speaker delivered a eu logy on women in which he said that he re garded it as the highest proof of the divin ity of christ and religion that more women than men attend church he then took up the second question is there a hell v the bible says so i believe it there at least onght to be if for no other reason than to give some of the great rascals pun ishment in the other world who escape it in this why the big scoundrels never get punished in this world its only the lit tle on as who are sent to the ails and pri sons it isnt only so in chicago its so everywhere horaoe greeley was once ap- proaohed for a subscription whats it for j he asked to found a society to keep people from going to hell hot a cent there are too many people who ought to so there not to believe in it i do not be- eve in a material hell for the simple reason that flesh and blood are things of this life here the speaker sketohed the terrible torments of the hell of conscience la orthodoxy dying out i hope so the sooner it eoes the better orthodoxy is a act of formulas gotten up in the past by men who had no rnoro sense then men of today it is a sort of mono poly of dogma mental and spiritual mono polies are as bad as other sorts all pro gress every reform has been made by het erodoxy christ was heterodox to the ortho dox jews luther and wesley and so on down all have been heterodox to the special crthodoxy of their day the best hope for the future is in continuing to throw off all forms of orthodoxy as rapidly as it can it is upon true christianity that spir itual advancement must depend beply of dr lawrence every seat in the second baptist church at monroe and morgan stroets was occupied last night tohearthoreply of thepastor the rev dr william m lawrence to the questions propounded by the tribune to the clergymen dr lawrence said he did not believe in the first place that there was a great disparity between the male and female attendance at church at least that was not the case in his church but coming to the question why do not men attend church ho said the explanation would be found in the fact that men bad not tho courage of their consciences young men coming from christian homes in tho east did not have the courage to stand up againstthe scoff of unbelievers they went to church at first openly the sneers of companions in boardtnghonsoa caused them to steal to church and after a while theya- bandoned the practice of devotion altogether a stronger reason wonld be found in the fact that men are obliged to work too hard during the week they are not in physical condition to attend religious devotions sunday the sunday nowspaper was also to blame he was of the opinion that a way conld bo found to make a sunday newspaper aoas not to conflict with the fourth commandment but the sunday newspaper as it existed was the product of the state of things which de- rodoxy is assertive just as crimes receive wide publication while virtues are passed over unnoticed so the negative in matters relating to religion is always in evidence in the public prints orthodoxy is taken for granted and does not receive publication this was especially the case in this city where heterodoxy when it asserted itself was made the topic of wide and general discus sion while orthodoxy was passed over with a joke or a sneer oneofthe great reviews of the country had given itself up to the promulgation of heterodoxy through a spirit of sensational ism perhaps when timothy dwight con nected himself with yale college eighty years ago there was but one communicant among the students today yale college is the home of orthodoxy in harvard college unitarianism has lost its ascendency the episcopalians baptists congregationalists presbyterians are in the overwhelming ma jority the orthodox schools and oolleges throughout the land are in a flourishing con dition heterodoxy has only one college of any note dr thomas view op rest rest was dr hiram w thomas sub ject at mcvickers rest means enjoyment contentment in their higher sensp sid dr thomas con trary to the general notion the class of people who get least true rest are those who are raised up in plenty and begin to be sup plied with everything they want the mo ment appetite and ta3tes awaken in them they early become pampered beyond the possibility of fresh pleasure the defect at the bottom of their life is that they do not pay in work for what they get it takes a lincoln a cass or a garfield tramping over a prairie or along a canal path search of a higher life getting knowledge after hungering for it to achieve that en joyment which is rest ooe must go to tho patriot to learn what flag means and to the man who has doubted for illustration of faith in the same way those only who nave toiled know rest the physical activities of this age are in no danger of straining its workers but the intellectual forces behind need a high r rest than they get this is to be found in the cultivation of the spiritual side of mind men must throw off the idea that the bur dens of life are altogether on their should ers and leave the outcomes of things to the creator of all energy in this is rest after the service dr thomas stated that he would take as a subject next sunday a religion for men he had been struck by the sunday tribunes investi- gations into why men dont attend hurch the article he said with its caretnlly collected data of male 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which did not tend to de velop christian character and he was oppos ed to anything that exerted an iofluenoo in the opposite direction lew hard enough to be good he said when you are being paid for it as i am though he could not speak from experience the pastor still beluved himself competent to discuss the question was it necessary for a man to be drowned in order for him to be aware that it was dangerous for him to plunge into the sea if ho couldnt swim from what he had learned from reliable sources and judging by results passing under bis own observation the influence exerted on society by the theatre was pernicious he understood that there were several young people in the congregation who were looking forward to adopting a threatrioal career he wished to warn them that there were several reasons why such a course would probably result disastrously with them it must be that there existed behind the scenes of a theatre a lack of restraint that could not but be most injurious to the 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