Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1900 — Few-Line Interviews. [ARTICLE]

Few-Line Interviews.

Rev. T. A. T. Hanna of Shelton, Conn., who harshly criticised the University of Chicago, once before, is out With another statement, and it isn’t, as mild as it might be: “Preachers of the gospel are hired according to age, education, personal appearance, family, manners, voice, dress, etc., and little attention is given to soundness of faith. .Colleges most abundantly endowed are the most expensive for students. As the endowment increases the expenses of the student increase, and endowments, therefore, are a misfortune. The seminary’s purpose ought to be tc prepare men to be proficient pastors. God is no respecter of persons and hell is no respecter of persons. The ‘cultivated moderns’ will have to take the gospel as Paul left it or perish eternally for want of it.”

About Christian science E. A. Kimball, chairman of the international board of lectureships, says: “You do not need to be afraid of thousands of things that you have been afraid of—of any so-called material laws or that symptoms of disease can dominate you. You need not he afraid of what yptt eat, of overwork, of a draught of air, or of loss of sleep. You say this seems strange, but 2,000,00(1 of cures have been effected by Christian science. Go to your homes and try to realize that God never made sickness and that it is simply a monstrosity of liunaaif inception.” ■ , President Kruger may come ttf America, Dr. Le.vds, his confidential adviser, talks as follows: “lie will not make knovcn his definite plans in regard to the United States until after the elections there, but President Kruger will certainly visit the foreign powers ofllcinlly or unofficially and will personally see the chiefs of the foreign governments to try nnd obtain substantial help."• Salvation, according to Rev, John Alexander Dowie, who just now is side-step-ping riots in Uondon, is not open to pll. In the course of tjome interrupted remarks he said: v We uren’t running nny free-for-all show. You can’t join the holy Christian Catholic Church *just because you want to. I’m the other partner ir the business, and I reserve the right to blackball unworthy candidates for salvation. Arthur Harris, the negro whose murder of Policeman Thorpe caused the race riots in New York City, has been found guilty of murder in the second degree.