Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1916 — Secularization of the Ministry. [ARTICLE]

Secularization of the Ministry.

’ The greatest peril that could befall the country would be the secularization of the ministry. There is a company of men who need to deliver their full force upon the spiritual and eternal. The amelioration of hard physical conditions is a good thing; but if you secularize the clergy by absorbing their thought and energies in mere matters of physical comfort or even of cultural improvement, you will destroy the one power that can ever hold human life to higher levels.— Raleigh Christian Advocate.