UNCOMPROMISING CLERGYMAN.
ON THE LAZINESS OF LAYMEN, "It has been said," remarked the Rev S. Henderson (ex-president of the Primitive Methodist Church), speaking . yesterday on'the subject of open-air work, "that if the minister leads the people will) follow. I give' that statement an emphat'o denial." Mr. Henderson went on.to say that the laymen of tlie church often failed: to...giye„ their ministers the . support in open-air work' to which they were entitled. The result.was that in many cases the open-air-, service, becamo a mere exhibition of.-fweaktiess. "The fact is," lie went on, "that our laymen are confoundedly lazy. That, I suppose, is the .'experience of most of you ministers on your stations. That is a plain fact." "Present .company excepted?" asked a. delegate. . 1 . "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.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1029, 19 January 1911, Page 4
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