The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
READ The PAPERS.
Epworth Leaguers
Must to Be Well
Informed.
srT-
THEY SHOULD ENTER POLITICS.
Hon. John L. Bates and J.
L. Harrington Speak
at Sterling.

Worcester and attended by nearly all
the delegates on the grounds.
The rest Of the forenoon was given
up TO recreations, baseball game be-
tween the Epworth League teams of
Clinton and Natick being the feature.
The game was played in field near the
lake. and resulted in a victory for the
Clinton team by a score of II to 4.
A short song service was held at 1.39
o'clock followed Immediately by the de-
partment conferences, which were held
at this time instead of at 4 O'Clock on
account Of the necessary delay of
George w. Penniman of Fall River,
secretary of the first general confer
enee league. Mr.. Penniman spoke IN
the evening instead, Rev. G. F. Eaton,
d. D., presiding elder of Cambridge
district, who was scheduled for
o'clock, being Kept away by the illness
of his wife.
The departments Of Christian work,
and mercy and help, and the literary
department met in the auditorium, j.
e. Lacount acting as chairman and
talks being given by Rev. A. M. Os-
good of Clinton and Rev Elihu Grant
of Revere. The social department met
in the Fitchburg house with Rev. Elias
Northrup of Waltham speaker. The
Junior department conference met IN
the Laurel street chapel, Mrs. A. M.
Osgood being chairman, and Mrs. Lucy
F. Harrison of Worcester giving
talk with blackboard illustration. The
missionary department, with e. B. La
valette as chairman, met in the Trim
ity church house.
Immediately following the conferen-
ces, the afternoon meeting was held,
the features of which were the -ad-
dresses by Hon. John L. Bates of Bos-
ton and j. L. Harrington of Nuremberg.
Mr.. Harrington spoke first, after a
solo by Miss Bertha e. Bailey of May
nard. and said in part, speaking on
the subject, fThe Epworth Lacquer as
a, Citizen:" Next to being a citizen
of heaven, 1 feel 1t is a blessed thing
to be a citizen of Massachusetts. In all
we do in the world, in every place we
go, you and I are citizens. / wish the
greatness of this point would take hold
of you, and you would realize what it
means to say I am a citizen And to
be the best citizen, you must be cit
lien beyond reproach.
THE citizenship of an individual or
of nation begins in the home. At
ter seeing the conditions which exist
in many homes, am not surprised that
so many young men and women on the
street are not the best types Of citi-
zens.
Our citizenship will be largely in
fluenced by our reading. If you would
be considered as well read, you must
first read the Bible. No book is so Of
ten quoted or misquoted. Next to the
Bible, if you are to be considered we'll
read, you must read the daily papers.
No man or woman or child can afford
TO be without it. 1t contains a little
that is true and much that is untrue,
but you must keep yourself well posted
by reading it in the right way. Broth
ers in the bospel, if you don't read the
daily paper you may as well fold your
tent like the Arab and silently steal
away. If you haven't time to read the
paper, your congregation hasn't time
to hear you preach. A man who says
he is too poor to buy a paper generally
does all of three things: chews tobacco,
drinks beer and keeps a dog.
Read good books. Have library
of your own, if it is only one book. In
moulding your citizenship, read and
read well, and be careful what your
"A sour amusements will influence our
\ citizenship. cannot believe that
amusements should be made an end
. rather than a means and 1 do not be-
lieve that our citizenship is being ele-
waited by some sorts of Sunday pleas.
7lres.
4 mot only do you owe duty to your
self, but to your town. Epworth
1eaguers should go into politics. If
prayer meeting comes on the same
night as the caucus, go to the caucus
andspray there. 1 believe the Epworth
league has a great duty in unfolding
the chief executive of this country in
carrying Christianity and civilization
into the islands of the sea. Let US re-
member that we are citizens, and that
we have a duty to our country and
God"
Miss Flossie Holgate of Lowell read
a poem entitled dead mans light"
and Hon, John l.. Bates of Boston, can
didate for the nomination for lieutenant
governor, was introduced Hon, Mr..
Bates said in part:
II wish to disabuse you at the OUT
set of any idea that / am here as a.
candidate for anything whatever under
the sun. | have just been thinking of
one kind of citizen which has not vet
been mentioned, Which is represented
by your presiding officer Mr. Dorr. The
X zeal and persistence he has shown to
get me to be present today, shows him
to possess quality which tends much
to the upholding of good citizenship.
81 am glad to be here to tell these
x representatives of the Epworth league
how much the commonwealth esteems
aims to the elevation of citizenship.
This is time OF great combines in the
business world, and what is true of
business, is true also in moral and spir-
itual affairs. 1t is refreshing to look
at this audience and realize that 1t
does not represent any section or mu-
nicipalitN but millions of young people
IN every land bonded together to unfit
humanity. The motto of this organ
1zaticn, Look up, lift up has. / be-
heve, been the secret of the success of
this commonwealth of Massachusetts
You VIII learn that the republics of ey-
cry land look toward Massachusetts as
the father of liberty Massachusetfs
began to look UP when the hardy colo
nists entered Plymouth Bay. and she
has been looking up and lifting up to
this day. gs,. ~ "
But Massachusetts has its limita.-
tons when 1t comes to citizenship. we
r1ghtfully boast OF our public schools
our pubic libraries, our museums. VET
we realize that there are limitations be-
yond which We cannot yet go. We for
n get that there are human deserts in the
state and human swamps which
breathe forth miasmas more deadly
than those of the swamps of Africa.
While we are gathered here there are
lu,qvO men and women In the prisons
and reformatories in the state. The
state Is trying to reform these men and
women, but as a prison director told me
the other day, the state cannot make
them over new.
Here comes the line where the work
OF the state leaves off and the work of
the church begins. 1t is the duty of the
.oue n H..