THE TROUBLE IS DUE TO THE PASTOR by The Christian Advocate

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 6, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 18.

"THE TROUBLE IS DUE TO THE PASTOR."

By The Christian Advocate

ONE of the daily papers, in speaking of a probable split in a congregation, says: "The trouble is due to the pastor, who opposes dancing and beer." The King's Daughters and King's Sons, a young people's society in the church, decided to give a dance Thanksgiving evening in a hall where beer is sold. The pastor preached against it, saying it was not the thing for the King's Daughters and Sons to do this. The society recalled the invitations and changed its name to the "Young People's Association." The invitations were re-issued.

This phrase, "The trouble is due to the pastor," recalls a scene from the Old Testament: "And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim."

A proper writing would have been this: The trouble is due to the young people, who were determined to have a dance in a hall where beer is sold, against which the pastor, in the discharge of his duty, protested.—The Christian Advocate.