POLITICS IN THE PULPIT.
Experience seems to show us, with increasing force, the grave unwisdom of permitting prominent politicians to address great audiences within places of public worship. The recent scene within the City Temple, when the Premier sought to .speak from Mr. Campbell's pulpit, upon a perfectly fitting subject, was deplorably sad. The hubbub was simply disgraceful. _ And the memory of such riot cannot but cling to the City Temple when more solemn gatherings meet within its walls. Similarly, the Chancellor of the Exchequer's political oration, delivered not long ago within Whitefleld's Tabernacle, has come now to be known as the Tabernacle speech. These incidents, surely, do detract from the reverence and respect which, hitherto in English life, have, always accrued to our churches and chapels. It will be better in every way to keep religious buildings for purely religious purposes. It is hard indeed for a. minister of religiou to foscus the thoughts of his people upon divine things within a building which has quite recently echoed with the shouts of an excited crowd. —The Gentlewoman,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14906, 3 February 1912, Page 5 (Supplement)
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