"Ministers have gone wrong because they have not been trained right in their professional schools; they have been educated only for oratorical labor, and that with the intent of persuading men to certain things by dint of their eloquence. What seminaries are giving courses corresponding to those in other professional schools on professional ethics? They have gone wrong in instances because their employers, the people, have not treated them right, have not given them a fair chance to live right; they have paid them, and are paying them less than we pay mechanics and clerks, and yet they expect the minister to live according to their social standards. "When the people who employ the ministers will give them an honest return for their work, when they will also encourage them to be honest in their preaching and teaching, there will be fewer unworthy ministers. When the theological schools get out of their shells and into the cities, and the preachers get out of their cloth and among folk, when they take off their garments of sanctimoniousness and get busy helping and leading others to better living, and to making this world a better place to live in, the ministers will be a good many notches higher in the world's esteem. It is needless to say there are a great many ministers who have made good in these ways." We have thus a view of the clerical profession from the inside, the writer having turned state's evidence. In the closing paragraph there is an intimation that liberal preaching, or "honest" preaching, with a discarding of the cloak of sanctimoniousness, will react on clerical morality and thus raise the preachers in the world's esteem. That view is borne out by the figures showing that the ministers of the liberal sects are the best behaved. The editor of the "Baptist Standard," commenting on the article which he prints and which we have quoted, attributes the clergy's poor reputation for morality to the "yellow journal," which he says "will get twice as black in the face as it will over any other person of equal prominence." The Baptist editor complains because--