Our valued co-worker in the vineyard, the Rev. George H. Hepworth, has
begun to cast his Sunday _Herald_ sermons in the first person singular
and affix his distinguished name thereto. If this will make these sermons
no better it will at least make them no worse.
As long-time admirers of these admirable Sabbath sermocinations THE
PHILISTINE welcomes this innovation. And we think we know the wherefore
of it. The Rev. Mr. Hepworth’s name attached to an article denunciatory
of sin will have a tendency to strike terror into the heart of Beelzebub,
and it was for this reason, no doubt, that Mr. Bennett directed Brother
Hepworth to take the field in person.
Unquestionably this will add a new and livelier interest to the church.
Each combatant knows exactly whom he is fighting. It is now Hepworth
against Satan with a fair field and no favor. We have no hesitancy
in saying that so far as Mr. Hepworth is concerned there will be no
_Valkyrie_ business. Moreover there is no desire to shirk responsibility.
What he has to say he will say fearlessly over his own signature, and if
those against whom these ecclesiastical thunderbolts are launched do not
like them they know what they can do. Wot t’ell!