"
These remarks were warmly applauded.
Next an editor of a religious paper arose, and spoke with decision:
"I want to be as liberal and broad-minded as God would have me be. I
came to this hall with doubtful steps. I cannot say that I have profited
thereby. My mind is at variance with the chairman of this meeting. He
says: 'All religious papers should be more conformed to the tastes of
the hungry world.' Let me ask, with all honesty, what is the taste of
the hungry world? Is it not a terribly perverted taste, a hungering
for the black sins of death? I contend that it is the work of a good
paper to be a beacon light, even though it shines from a lofty
light-house. It may thereby shine out farther and wider. Away with the
doctrine of devils that would pervert the truth and send with merciless
fling----"
At this juncture the speaker was seized by an officer who came running
in at the ringing of a bell and arrested the editor on the charge of
"disturbing the peace," which, the chairman declared, was due to a
diseased state of his mind.
Miss Church-Member was freightened from the hall by this episode, and
was followed by her less fearful companion.
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