The Name of God Is Blasphemed
By Editor
The Name of God Is Blasphemed.—We referred some time ago to the antics of an actor preacher in Eureka, Cal., in preaching on billiards, cards, etc., and illustrating them in the pulpit. A later effort on his part was a birthday party to which both young women and men were invited. Among the amusements he set before the young of his flock was a mock initiation into a secret society. He and the young men entered a room, and the young women—belonging, by the way, to a 'Bachelor Girls' Club'—were admitted three at a time on their knees, with their heads touching the floor, and repeating after this pseudo minister a bit of doggerel so vulgar in suggestion as related to the indecent posture of the ladies that we would not besmirch our columns by printing it. It went on for awhile till some girl had the courage to rebel; the church organist and some of the choir among these girls resigned, and the minister is in trouble. He ought to be. Yet we do not wonder at him; there are sinners and failures in all professions; but we are amazed that a Christian church could tolerate a man who would do such things so long! A holy office does not make a holy man. A minister or priest is not delivered to do deeds that any Christian man or gentleman would not do. Pertness, smartness, freakishness may be fitting in a child or clown; but it should have no place in the ministry of the Lord Jesus.