Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1883 — Pulpit Advertising. [ARTICLE]

Pulpit Advertising.

Clergymen have a difficult post to fill. They are set as public censors of the morals of the community. But they may err by too much tenderness or too much harshnesl; they may fail in their duty by an indiscreet silence or by an indiscreet utterance. In either case they are likely to meet with much thoughtless denunciation. A Marlboro (Mass.) clergyman, in his sermon on Sunday, denounced a dramatic performance about to be given in that town as immoral, and warned his flock not to attend it. The result must have startled him, for Whoa*the 4 show” came nearly all the town went to see it, on account of the pulpit advertising it had received. Of course everyone will blame the clergyman for saying anything about the matter at all; but it is equally true that many people are oontinually blaming the clergy for keeping about just such things.