A Church Without Discipline
By Editor
The Christian Cynosure reports the following church item:— Rev. H. C. Heyser, pastor of a German evangelical church, has resigned. He says: "The cause of the disagreement is due to the fact that we have socialists and anarchists among the church members. They want a religion without a Christ and a world without a God. That is a kind of theology of which I have no understanding, and not being able to preach it resigned. The most influential members in the congregation, it appears, are either saloon keepers or proprietors of shooting galleries, and the church is unable to discipline them." It would seem that a church that had not the power to discipline such members as that, had better cease to be called a church, because it is in fact just anything at all but a church.