G. B. T by G. B. T.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 15, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 36.

G. B. T

By G. B. T.

In a recent number of Harper's Weekly, commenting upon the work of a noted evangelist, the editor says:

"He frequently begins his hypnotic game with a racy explanation that culture makes him sick. Those who have it are 'muts.' Then he slams the churches, and perhaps a few other institutions, and by his fantastic and slangy ridicule puts his audience into a pleased and friendly mood. He then proceeds to ridicule and reproach the devil. It is a great little game."

We fear there is altogether too much truth in the statement

of this editor. We search in vain through the ministry of Christ for a single instance where He ever engaged in any such unseemly tactics in order to draw the crowd.

Stage performances, interspersed with slang and the gibes and the buffoonery of a clown, have no place in the gospel ministry. A gospel that must depend upon these things to reach the masses has lost the power to save men from sin, and is of no value.