The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-26

the man who received five talents and
gained other five shall divide even with
the man who received one talent and
went and hid it in the earth.
This association recognizes one
great fact, which is that we can do
nothing for God up in Heaven, that
what we do for Him must be done for
His creatures, our brother man here
upon the earth. The association is not
the church; it can never take the place
of the church and it has never tried to.
"In this age of commercialism, which
forces men to work at such high pres
sure, in an atmosphere where the dol
lar is so persistently in evidence, there,
is great danger that we may not always
measure things by correct standards
of value.
zone of the questions often asked
about a man is, What is he worth?'
and almost without exception the an
swer is expressed in dollars and cents.
A mans real worth to society consists
not in what he has, but in what he is,
and the true worth of life can never
be accurately measured on this side of
the great divide.
This nation has been called upon to
mourn the loss of a great and good
man. President Mckinley was almost
/ 50 years of age, and there was left for
him perhaps 10 or u years more of life.
He has exchanged that dozen years for
Immortality. His is one of the names
which were not born to die. He did not
become a Christian by chance, no man
ever does: he became a Christian by
choice. His rich, full Christian life was
not the result of drifting, but of being
anchored to eternal truth. And when
stricken down by the foul assassin, he
I gave to the world an object lesson of
how goth century Stephen could die,
and with his dying breath ask that the
man who had stricken him down be
not harmed. IT is the business of the
Y. M. c. A. to produce Christians of
the type Of our martyred President,
and l want to ask you if it is not worth
while?
Gods process of making Christians
| is, after all, very simple. He uses one
Christian as means to convert anoth-
/ err and that is the way the church has
grown and has been perpetuated; and
that is the way it must grow
! in the future There was once a day
when there was but one Christian.
Christ called Andrew, and that made
two; Andrew findeth his brother Peter
| John 1:35-40), and now there are three
! Jesus said to Philip, Follow me- and
he obeyed, and there was added anoth-
er. Philip findeth Nathaniel. And so
it has been from that day to this
THAT Christ life has come down to
us in an unbroken chain, the links of
which have been the lives of individual
/ Christians. The links in that long
chain of Christian brotherhood have
not all been alike Some have been
strong like Peter and Paul, tried and
| tempted by the fires of suffering and
hammered out on the anvil Of persecu-
| ton. Some have been represented by
/ Marys and Marthas. Some by the
! Good Man of the House. whose
/ thought for Christ gave for his use the
upper room in which the Christian
Church was born.
Others have been represented by
monks who separated themselves from
the world and who, in exile, kept that
chain unbroken through all the long
dark ages of the past. Some like grand
old Telemachus. Some have been beau
tiful girls, just budding into woman
hood who, for the love they bore the
Master, could stand in the arena and
face the wild beasts at Rome and
Ephesus. Other links have been those
who lived lives of humble service Not
martyrs or heroes, as the world counts
heroes, whose names and deeds may
not be known outside a very small cir
Gle, but whose lives have been a con-
slant benediction to those who havel
known them.
There are three words which mean
much to the Christian church-faith.
hope and love; but one of these words
| is infinitely larger than the other
two. Christ came down from heaven
and lived a life, that he might bring
within the compass of the mind of
man Gods fatherhood and human
brotherhood; but without love there
can never be real brotherhood.
rs the world growing better and is
the spirit of brotherhood increasing?
Emphatically, yes There are pessi- |
mists who think otherwise, and some
one has aptly defined the pessimist as
the man who puts out the light in or
der that he may see the dark side of |
the picture. The pessimist mourns |
that the good old days of the past
have gone. We find him in politics |
and business, as well as in religion.
In modern history we sometimes |
hear men bewail the fact that by the |
subdivision of labor, man has become |
a human machine, and they sigh for |
the return of those good old days of |
the apprentice system, where the APP
prentice was a member of his masters
household land I beg you to note the |