UNCOMPROMISING CLERGYMAN
ON THE LAZINESS OF LAYMEN. "It has been said," remarked the Rev. S. Henderson (ex-president of the Primitive Methodist Church), speaking at the conference on the subject of open-air work, ''that if the minister leads the people will follow. I give that statement an emphatic denial." Mr. Henderson went on to say that the laymen ol the church often failed to give their ministers the support in open-air work to which they were entitled. The result was that in many cases the open-air service became a mere exhibition of weakness. "The fact is," he went on, "that our laymen are confoundedly lazy. That, I suppose, is the experience ol most of you ministers on your stations. That is a plain fact." "Present company »,»<:eptcdS" asked a delegate.
"These men are no better than anybody else," was Mr. Henderson's uncompromising reply, as he pointed with a comprehensive gesture to the assemblage in front of him. —Dominion.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 228, 20 January 1911, Page 8
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157UNCOMPROMISING CLERGYMAN Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 228, 20 January 1911, Page 8
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