Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1917 — Then Hammond Pastor Was Glad. [ARTICLE]

Then Hammond Pastor Was Glad.

Winona Lake, Ind., Aug. 20.—The day of the “sissy” minister is past. Bishop Thomas Nicholson, of Chicago, told a group of several hundred pastors and evangelists here and Rev. J. C. Parrett, pastor of the Hammond Presbyterian church, who had brought down his golf bag for exercise between lectures and sermons felt that he was not sorry he had done so. “A minister no longer has’ a standing he once had" By reason of the cut of his coat or the color of his necktie,” the bishop said. “Because w minister has a glib tongue or a dramatic manner he is not necessarily successful. He can’s get the illustrations of his sermons out of already prepared, aor his sermons out of the sermons preached by other ministers in the middle ages. “A minister must be a real leader of men and face real issues and acSiire influence by what he does for e community In which he lives.”