# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1915_S135
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Kirchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches. 135

to many of ihe most learned and devout this view was never eniirely
unsatisfactory. In some instances at lenst the Seriptures have been vio⸗
lently twisted to maintain it“. Dementgegen verurteilt unser Bekenntnis
(Aug. XVII) als judaica opinio die Lehre, daß vor der Auferstehung der
Toten die Frommen auf Erden herrschen sollen, während die Gottlosen
vertilgt sein werden. Dieses Urteil allein stimmt mit den Aussagen der
Schrift über die Wiederkehr Christi und über die Zustände in Welt und
Kirche, die dem Gericht vorausgehen. G.
über den Erweckungsprediger Billy Sunday gab kür zlich der CHAr.
lotte (N. C.) Observer, ein weltliches Blatt, ein Urteil ab, das gegen die
Belobungen Sundabs in der reformierr-tirchlichen Presse mertwürdig ab⸗
sticht. In einer Besprechung der Predigeweife Sundays sagte das Blatt
redaktionell: His sermons are rambling and disjointed, and, on the
Whole, give the result of the most unique Bible-study that has come to
our knowledge. Martha, Sunday says, is his favorite. She is a kind
of northwest wind woman, kind of snappish, and always on the job.“
She is a beefsteak, baked potatoes, apple-sauce with lemon and nutmeg,
coffee and whipped cream, apple-pie and cheese sort of a woman. Mary,
on the other hand, is a loafer on the job — aà sort of uneeda biscuit, pea-
nut butter, gelatine and pimento sort of woman.“ Let the Lord Jesus
Siid: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part.
which shall not be taken away from her.“ Wirabilé dictu““ Der Vu⸗
theran Charch. Vaisitor (United Synod South) deckt in einem Artikel die
Torheit auf, deren sich Pastoren schuldig machen, die Billy Sundah ein⸗
laden und ihn in seiner Tätigkeit unterstützen. Es heißt da: „Billy Sun-
day is denunciatory in the very house of his friends. Ministers of the
Gospel are not beyond the limits of his scorn. The churches led by these
pastors, struggling year after year at the old stand,“ meeting the spir-
itual problems with fortitude and with the Spirit of God, are held up to
ridicule. Vet these very ministers and their congreégations make a Sun-
day campaign possible. The local Christian community builds the taber-
naclée' according to Sundan plans. The Hocal Christian following furnishes
the sinews of war.“ That particular portion of the world which is io
come under the influence of this twentieth-century dynamie for a season
has been prepared by preliminary meetings, exchortations, and prayer,
getting ready for the advent of the chief battalion, Rodehaver with his
trombone, Sunday and his whole array of invectives. No one has been
bold enough to preédiet Wwhat the Philadelphia campaign is to cost in
dollars and cents. But the amount will be cçontributed by the Christian
people of that eity. When the ten werks have ended. and the Conquering
Hero bas departed, taking wthe cream caréfulls kkimmed with bim. these
same faitliful. Jeft-behind pastors must Jaher on in the old paths, visiting
the sick, distressed, and troubled, burying the dead, baptizing the chil-
dren, preaching in the same old way for the edification of the saints,
directing the schools of the church, struggling on with the same old
problems of sin and wiekedness and indifference to the Giospel cll, raising
money for the various benevolent objects in Which the Church is inter⸗
estell.“ Ahnlich redete in jüngster Zeit das Fresbyterian Bunner. Wenn
das revival zu Ende ist, lesen wir da, hen all these exciting scenes have