And as long as I live I shall also believe that it is a minister's duty to preach to his church plainly upon matters which bear upon the right and wrong of life, no matter what is involved in those matters.

Are money and houses and lands of such a character that the use of them has no bearing on moral questions, and they are therefore to be left out of the preaching material of the pulpit?
It is my conviction that many men of property in this age are coming to regard their business as separate and removed from God and all relation to Him.
The business men of to-day do not regard their property as God's.

They always speak of it as theirs.

And they resent any 'interference,' as you call it, on the part of the pulpit.

Nevertheless, I say it plainly, I regard the renting of these houses by you, and other business men in the church, to the whisky men and the corrupters of youth as wholly wrong, and so wrong that the Christian minister who would keep silent when he knew the facts would be guilty of unspeakable cowardice and disloyalty to his Lord.