Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 4, 1924, Page 5

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1924 MINISTERIAL ETHICS JUST AS BINDING ASIN PROFESSIONS, PASTOR HERE SAYS IN ADDRESS | his Ife in winning members to his church. There is no excuse for a minister to seek members among people who have the brand of some Rev. L. E. Carter Discusses Question From Local Standpoint In Pape Read Before Association ; To build up the Kingdom of Jesus tstowsbtp, 4 a Christ a minister must be able to] However unethical it is to seek r to build up our churches by persuad- The f address “Ministerial Ethics” ing people to join who are members fo wp LAE Carter of the, rare of other churches outside of Casper meeting yesterday by the Casper Ministerial but not yet members here, it is even more astounding to know that some pastors are actually trying to per- suade people who are attendants and members of churches in Casper | to leave their church and join else- ; where. Such a scheme has been at- | tempted recently in an effort to in-| duce two of my most loyal choir members to leavd this church, the church of which they have been members for years and join some other church in the city. I ¢annot | say that the pastor of any church has personally attempted this “rust- ling” scheme, but the attempt has been made through members of his church. There are ways of doing things by proxy that are quite as unethical as doing ! in person. Another obseryation has been made bearing on the same topic. Efforts have been made to build up | Sanday school classes in our city at | the expense of other churches. Why should a class in one church seek | to induce members of other churches / to join that class? Are there not enough unchurched people to fill every Sunday school room in Cas- per? Why seek to. tempt people away from their church homes? | Certainly this is unethical. | It is to be expected that certain | of the new isms that have sprung | up in the world will build them- | selves up by prosélyting. That is! their only hope for growth. But it | is disappointing to see pastors and | members of orthodox churches re- | sort to the sly underhanded, un-| ethical methods that are being used | to build up individual churches at | the expense of the Kingdom of God. Brother pastors, let us practice | the golden rule. No pastor enjoys the experience of having a neighbor- ing pastor or members of a neigh: boring church lead his members away. Then why attempt the same thing himself? Let us do unto other, pastors as we would have them do unto us. That is real building up of the Kingdom of God by fostering the spirit of brother- | hood and co-operation with God. | desires harmony among his hildren. Without harmony there cannot be any real advancement toward God and the coming of His | Kingdom. When we work in har- mony, each pastor staying on his own territory and doing his work in a Christian way, we can sing with sincerity “Like a mighty army Moves the Church of God; Brothers, we are treading Where the saints have trod; We are not divided, All one body we; ‘One in hope and doctrine, One in charity.” , among my best friends have been pastors of other denominations than my own. In Schenectady, New York, where I was pastor for six years: before coming to Wyoming my best friends in the ministry were the pastor of the Presbyterian church located three blocks from my church and the rector of St. George s Episcopal church which had mem- bers in my parish. We never thought of each other as competitors thought of each other as com- In speaking upon this theme it might be well to define what is meant by the term, ministerial ethics. Ethics as defined by Web- ster is “‘a system of moral principles or practices, such as medical ethics, social ethics.” The term ministerial ethics would therefore be a system of moral principles and practices that should prevail among ministers of the gospe} in their relation to each ‘other and to each other's churches. Such @ code of ethics exists in the professional world. Lawyers, doc- tors, degtists and other professional men have an understanding as to ‘what will be considered ethical. in their profession. It is no less tm- portant for ministers to have a code d of ethics that would define what is ‘within the bonds of moral and Chris- tion practices as they deal with each other in their work. . In preparing this paper I have not consulted any book on this sub- Ject, in fact I have never seen a book upon this subject, though there must be such a publication. What I have to say will be drawn largely from my personal observa- tion and thoughts after twenty years in the Christian ministry. I have, however, read one lecture by Bishop William F. McDowell which he delivered before the divinity stu- dents of Yalo university in 1912, on the “Ministry of Co-operation." Bishop McDowell has given some helpful suggestions which I shall in Part pass on to my hearer today. During these twenty years I have held to certain rules’ in trying to minister to a community. Not al- ‘ways have I held to these rules as strictly as I wish I had, yet for the most part they have governed my methods of work as a minister, First of all, as the work of the ministry appears to me, it is one of service to the whole community. A minister is not a chaplain to a select club, but a servant of God minister- ing to the community at large. In the last number of the American Magazine is an iluminatifg article about the Little Church Around the Corner. It is suggestive to learn how that. church acquired its name. One day “Joseph Jefferson went to the rector of a church Madison avenue—a churen, by the way, which {s no longer there—and asked him to read the burial service at the funeral of George Holland, a well known actor, “clergyman apparently regarded “attors as out- casts, even after they were dead, for he declined to officiate at’ the ser- vice. However, he did offer a sug- gestion. “There's ‘a little church around the corner where they do that soft of thing,” the rector said. Immediately Joe Jeffersom ex- claimed, ‘Then God bless the little church around the corner!" From that time until now that Uttle church around the corner has geen known for ‘its kindly ministry to the community, and is today the most’ famous and best beloved church in America, Here is a hint as to what the minister should be In a community, @ servant of all, trying to promote harmony and good will in the com- munity, trying to Hghten burdens for those who are heavily laden. Another plan of work that has been my purpose to uso is that of fostering a spirit of toleration and co-operation among the churches in the community where {t has been my fortune to work. My. first ap- pointment was to a little mountain village in the Adirondack moun- tains of New York state. There boards make a distinct question out of this, If a candidate, of whatever other qualifies, lacks the ability to live and work harmoniously with other workers in the same field, that lack is regarded as disqualific: tion for service on the foreign field. The same test should be put as men are appointed to pastorates or are being sought by churches ‘as pastors. It is inconceivable that a minister can build up the Kingdom of Christ by working ovt of har- mony with other pastors in the com- munity. If harmony and team work are 80 essential to the building up of the Kingdom of Christ, how may ministers promote such a fellow- ship? In a generat way that’ may be answered by a great truth which Jesus laid down, “As ye would that men should do unto you, ¢o ye even so to them.” If all of us pastors would practice as well as preach the golden rule the problem of minis- terial ethics would be solved. Let us apply this to actual condl- tions we have in our work here in Casper. This is a city of new or- ganizations, religious and otherwise. I have been living here two and one half years and since I came there have sprung up at least seven churches that have drawn from the attendance of my church and Sun- day school. In some cases this loss that has come to my church has been through previous church af- filtations of the members who left my church to join others, and in fome cases the loss has been be- cause of geographical location of the new churches and in some cases the loss has been because of aggres- sive efforts of pastors to proselyte. But during that time this church has continued .to grow and’. be crowded at nearly every servic there is no disposition on the of the speaker to regret that he has lost a few members. The only thought that grieves him is that brother pastors, men who should be brothers, should resort to the meth- ods used to-bulld up their member- ship. Let me {Mustrate. Se mem- bers have gone into other churches without asking for their church let ters and without notice being sent to me that they had joined: else- where.. Common courtesy should prompt any pastor when he receives a member from another church to notify the @hurch from which that member has gone. Surely minis- terial ethics would suggest such courtesy. ‘ Another method of work that some pastors resort to has been observed. A pastor called at the home of one of my members and spent the time there criticizing the church of which that good woman is a member. What was expected to be gained by such unethical conduct is not known by the speaker, but this much is known that that particular pastor made no progtess in that home in trying to win away one of my mem- bers. Certainly the golden rule was not being observed in that case. Another observation made is the manner whereby some ministers an- nounce their services and publish thelr sermons. They use expres- sions that imply that they have ex- elusive truth and that | other copalians. but did not conflict. If I mistake not, the work of a true minister of Jesus Christ is to build up the kingdom of Christ. in the community. In doing this he, of course, is expected to be loyal to his~own church and increase its numbers and power and usefulness, but that is not accomplished by weakening any other church. Nor 4s the building up of his own church the end of his work. Here let me quote Bishop Mc- Dowell’s words to the Yale students. “No man living to himself lives a! his best. ‘Christian ethics the science of living well with an- other according to Christ.’ - The Christian ministry is the science of serving and working nobly, never too nobly, but never alone, with one another, always in fellowship and co-operation, and always accord- ing to that other minister and his ministry. If ever one was strong enough to go alone, He was. If ever one taught us the lesson of fellowship and co-operation, He did.'" Churches are like ministers in this respect. No single church ts sue- ceeding in a town wheh the king- dom in that town is losing. Churches and ministers sometimes count their own prosperity the chief thing. They build at the expense of other churches and justify it by specious arguments that deceive no one. The ministry of co-operation will build the whole Kingdom, ‘and if it be not doing that it is no minis- try of Je’us Christ. Exaggerated individualism or exaggerated de- nominationalism is just as ugly as exaggerated nationalism, We have passed the day when tribal warfare and its methods look decent even in church life. Our success lies at last in our service and meaning to the whole catise of Christ.’ Such are Bishop McDowell's words to young men about to enter the migistry. It would be well for us who have had years of experience to heed these wise words on ministerial ethics. ‘The home is a sacred institution. Who “would try, to build his own family life by stealing from the happiness of andther family? The home life of a community is made secure when every home keeps strictly within its own rights and privileges, and yet is kept ins har- mony with every other home. Likewise church life {s promoted, not by winning members away from other churches but by ministering to thdse who are already in each church and by seeking to win to the churches those who have no choice of a church home. A true pastor of Jesus Christ who keeps as his aim the building up of Christ's kingdom, does not resort to methods of the cattle rustler, who secretly |churthes are narrow and bigotted changes the brand on the cattle.|in their theology and_ practices. There are plenty of mavericks loose, | That does not foster the spirit of without a church and without God} harmony among churches. That is to keep the honest minister busy all | not building up the Kingdom of Christ in Casper. But the above methods of pastoral work are not the only ones that tend to mar the good will and har- beriain| mony ‘that should exist between Moines, Iowa, and | ch ies in our city. | There’ are Sh erininn package | efforts being made to tempt people Cough | to leave the churches of which they Sat Se In Great Britain the government pow receives. as revenue consider- ably more than half.of all the money spent on intoxicating drink. PUT STOMACH IN ORDER AT ONCE “Pape’s Diapepsin” Gas, Indigestion or Sour Stomach for Instantly! Stomach corrected! You never feel the slightest distress from indigestion or a sour, acid, gassy tomach, after you eat a tablet of “Pape's Diapepsin."” ‘The moment it reaches the stomach all sourness, flatulence, heartburn, gases, palpi- tation and pain disappear. Drug: gists guarantee each..package to correct digestion at once. 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