The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-30

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pressions received from such an hour Of wor
ship will never be forgotten. Souls In grea
numbers will be saved, and thus your active
ilst oi members will grow rapidly. Every
Individual member Of the ideal Y. M. G. A
VIII make i point in his office, upon the
street, ~ MS church, wherever he Is, to seek
out and warmly invite young men TO ioin H.
ranks, and after getting the promise. will bs
at the rooms himself 10 welcome the stranger
and Introduce him TO his fellow workers. tVe
should each be responsible In securing al
least one new member for the Association
every year, and some OF us know can infiu.
ence score during the year TO unite theil
hearts and hands with us In this greatest and
most important work prosecuted by young
men for young men. Let us form ourselves
into committee Of the whole for the gather.
ing In Of sheaves for the Master S. kingdom.
The general secretary, driven almost to des-
pair now with cares, can't hunt them up and
three, five or ten will not accomplish the de-
sired results In this direction. When you
return home ask your sh0pmate, fellow
clerk, partner or business friend, for the
privilege Of proposing their names and ask
in such manner that you won't get refused.
Our membership in the State can be easily
doubled this year with the proper effort. Let
none OF us go through life empty handed,
but in Christs strength may we be able TO
add many stars to our crown Of rejoicing,
servant of our Lord and Master. Amen.
Remarks followed by Messrs. Lawrence,
Messer and others. Secular agencies. well
guarded, were believed to be very helpful.
j. G. Black, G. p. Crossman and w. S.
Corey we're appointed committee to noml-
nate seven new members Of the State Exec
utive Committee-four to fill vacancies and
three to enlarge the committee, as provided
in the constitution.
The second topic, "How can women best
help our Association work ?" was opened by
Cambridge, Mass, Young Mems Christian
Association, who said;
Women have right to be interested In
youngimen. Upon the character Of the
young men Of any community depends the
purity and happiness OF the homes Of that
community. WOman's work is to assist the
Young Mems Christian Association In work
ing for the young men. TO do this they
need organization: The field Of the Auxilia-
ry l. not to work for young women, but to
assist the Y: NJ. G. A. in their work for
young men. That there is need for similar or
ganiZati0n for young women Is not for an in
slant doubted, but it does not properly come
into the field of the Auxiliary.
In answer to the questions which followed
Mr.. Messer candidly admitted that the aux
iliary has no rights or privileges, but is oc-
casionally granted forms. All its money
must 60 to the Y. M. c. A., but it has the
privilege of voting it to the Association OF
buying something the Association needs
with it, 1t Is believed that this method is
more pleasing to the women than to pay it
directly into the general treasury
On motion Of Mr.. Winter it was voted that
the secretary send the greetings of the Maine
Convention to the convention now in session
at Des Moines, Ia, and also to that at Inde-
pendenee, Mo.
Rev. DR.. Small offered prayer, and brief
recess was taken.
At 4.9o p. m, Rev. A. 7. Dunn led the
class in the study Of the International lesson
for October 3l.-"Jesus Risen"
Mr.. Lamb sang "Tell Me the Story Of
Jesus in a touching manner.
Rev. Chas. A. Marsh offered prayer.
The class was unusually small owing to
the severe storm.
EVENING.
The exercises in the evening took place in
the Second Parish church and commenced
with praise meeting at 7.30 o'clock, fol
lowed by an address by Rev. Dr. Withrow of
Boston, Of which the following is an alb
straet:
SOUND DOCTRINE AND SOUND MORALITY" +"
1t Is not hard to tell what sound morality
Is but not so easy to get at the matter Of
sound doctrine. / should be the last to say
that the Methodists have the best, because /
am not Methodist. They think they have.
The Baptists think they are sound and |
think they are remarkably sound, but still 1
would not say that thatwas thedsctrine. The
C0ngregatiOnalistS have many good things
also; we won't let our Baptist brethren have
1t all to themselves. Sound doctrine Is what
is taught in the Bible, not what is drawn out
by theological schools, although would not
Tor moment decry the power of sound
learned exegesis Of the scriptures. But there
is tendency to split hairs that the public do
not care for, or understand. Let any man
open the book as the basis of the religious
belief Of the country, supposing the man to
be ignorant OF any particular doctrine. What
does it teach? Why, the deeper a man reads
the more convinced he Is that he Is a misera-
BILE sinner. There is an evident sense Of all
great truth in that book and call that sound
doctrine. won't have any doctrinal points
with my brother, but there Is q great stratum
Of proof in this book admitted to be the basis
Of religious truth.
There are two distinct views Of sound doc
tIluc Ouc - Lndt IL MATTERS not what q maj
believes. Such men detest ereeds, cures creed
and curse generally those who have creeds
Iney say that man may be an atheist anC
still be good moral man and citizen.
don't dispute 1t; have seen such men.
believe that there are men who ever speak
Christ i'm .love whose citizen Ifs is IRE
proachable. have no doubt that there are
good men who have no respect for he Bible
at all. We admit all that. We gr r,nt these
things. A man may reject Christ anity and
stu be good citizen. A man may not be-
lleve In hereafter and still be good man
in his public career as a citizen. All this /:
said, but IL Is not logic TO say that because q
man is an atheist and a good man, all athe.
lists are good men. There are great results
from heredity, good rs well as bad | one,
asked an atheist who boasted Of his virtues
Who was your mother? "A Methodist
shouting Methodist, yes a dear old saint
That man got all his goodness from his
mother.
Nearly all people, however much they may
boast Of liberality in religious thought have
at some time in their lives been deeply i'm
pressed with religious instruction ant
thought, and they owe all that Is good IL
them TO that. Ii has permeated all their afte
life. A man who boasted of his rationalisn
had learned nothing Of religion from mparents
but he had gone along like wild ASS coll
until he married an excellent wife. 1t wa
she who held him. No one knows how man
men would be in prison but for their wiye.
Ii Is these influences that are 20 be looked al
A man may be held even by child. Ever
man creates an atmosphere around him. Cal
a man live amid the sound of church bells
and preaching, and be insensible TO il? No
at all. He simply says eg0tistieally TO him
self: These people require religion; III sh0y
them can be good without It,
Here the preacher drew 70 picture Of tn
difference between the life in what he calle,
the darkness OF heathendom and in a cit
like Lowell where mayor comes to welcOm
the Y. NJ. G. A. That is the way to deter
| mine what effect surroundings have on
mans morals. Go TO Central Africa If yol
| want to see the difference. The early teach
| ing, the environments Of a man are every
/ thing.
The class Of foreigners that have beei
| striving to upset our system, anarchists, re
| present what comes from nOn-religiOn. Bu
| they represent an extreme. Another el
| treme Is represented by those who claim b,
cause they have creed that they have a
that Is needed. They seriously doubt tbs
believers OF any other creed can escape dan
nation. At least they deem 1t. dangerou
| risk. Signing creed with these peopl
makes them all right in their view. Bnt
isn't true. Such statements are put In tn
public press as the views of determinations
but that isn't true. No church ever claim
that man will be lost unless he professe
| their creed Individual members may d
such things. And yet newspapers sow sue
statements broadcast A man may sign th
whole SO articles and yet be a bad man. An
somehow or other when man professin
religion does fall, he Is certain TO be reported
| It IS put in special lines that he Is a Sunda
school superintendent. The world seems I
think that such a man ought not to fal