This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...me to walk with him a far as the station, where we waited together till he took the local train. His conversation was quiet and deliberate, somewhat critical in a smiling way of churches in general, but warmly commendatory of the evangelistic methods which we were following. In a tentative way. he suggested that San ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...me to walk with him a far as the station, where we waited together till he took the local train. His conversation was quiet and deliberate, somewhat critical in a smiling way of churches in general, but warmly commendatory of the evangelistic methods which we were following. In a tentative way. he suggested that San Francisco offered a larger field, and gave me to understand that if I would leave my Oakland pastorate and take hold of mission work in San Francisco he would do what he could to see that I had sufficient financial backing. Tentative and cautious as the proposition was there was every reason to believe he meant business and only waited my assent to get behind such a movement in a substantial way. I repected both these men, but their preference for my procedure did not strengthen it in my mind. Even then I took Jesus' sayings about wealth too seriously to believe that moral vision is on the side of money. I had the feeling already in embryo that good work is not going to be everywhere well received, and that the favor of the well-to-do under ordinary social circumstances is not an altogether favorable sign. But it was not until years afterwards that I came to understand why it is that wealth looks with complacency upon church work of the "spiritual" and evangelistic type. Yet I was beginning to wake up. I turned over uneasih on my own easy bed when someone reported to me that one of the members of the church, an old man of sober habits and industrious life but dependent now with his wife on an overworked and often underpaid young woman relative, had been actually seen fumbling over a garbage barrel at a neighboring store, kept by another of my members, in the effort to pick out some pieces of unspoiled fruit to take home. I think my pre...
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