The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-04
OPENED BY SHELDON
Interesting Day With Congre-
gatiOnai Ministers.
SUNDAY SCHOOL REPORT
Many Valuable Addresses
Were Delivered.

The Friday morning session Of III,
Association was opened with q devouona
service I'D BY Rev. Charles NJ Sheldon
Mr. sheldon read pm. 2.5-13 from III.
Twentieth century new testament a nod
err translation Of the new testament
from which he Is in the habit OF reading
the scripture lessons IN the services Of
his church. He said four words represent
Gus relation TO God:
First Loving obedience TO God
Christians must step using such phrases
IS I'm conscious" eCc-
Second - Wiling stewardship. That
everything belongs 10 God The earth IS
the Lords, and the r1nness thereof
sums Up the duty Of willing stewardship.
Third-Service- Greatest word -
language in service. the smallest is SELF
There must be Intelligent service The
one who would serve must not only be
good bur intelligent
acknowledgements JOYFUL co-ODera-
tlon not only ohedlent. a steward. q ser
want. but q co-E0rker with God. II
can End out what Cod wants % do I
know that he wants me % work with
Hin. then 1 have q tremendous aGvant-
age found il my ministry
These four points mark the boundary
Of our relation Eish God.
Rev. ". l. rutherford, superintendent
OF Sunday school work for Kansas, gave
report Of 20 schools under his care
Throughout the state some OF these
were identified with churches and others
We're independent The purpose Of these
schools unassociated with churches is %
fold. First they furnish oftmes the only
means Of grace II the community and
secondly they furnish the beginnings Of
definite church organizations.
The outlook Cor permanent Sunday
school work fl kansas-seen on our
western borde-s-is very encoura sing.
mr. Sutherl2nd's time. which previously
was divided between Kansas and Ms
SCUM IL the service Of the Congregational
sunday school ard Publishing Society.
wiu in the future devote his whole time
u Kansas in the service % the Society.
3Ir E Harricz Brown. Chicago agent
OF the Congregational sunday School
and Publishing Society announced the
purchase q the ugregauonalist' BIZ
the Society.
Prof H l. McNeu spoke on Con
science in Civic and Commercial Affairs. "
Conversion IN its essential result IS
simply the enthr0nement of conscience
over the whole life A revival TO be truly
ethical must be more than ethical; but
q revival which is not ethical IS TO re-
vival at ALI only the true Christian
can De truly and fully moral The unit
OF force in any satisfactory civil ard in
dustrial reform must be the individual
Chrstian Conscience
But the intense life Of this Twentieth
century with its Imperative demand for
success at all costs. without regard 10
methods or motives, makes It douhly
hard Tor the Individual to honor his con-
science But IL can b done and must be
done. Th heroisn Of the Twentieth cen
tugy must BE-. not military heroisn but
moral heroism; not the heroism Of the
man that stands by his gun. but the
heroism OF the man that stands by his
conscience.
What pei. cent Of our politics are per
vaded By the spirit Of CHRIST ana con-
troued by a sense OF duty and public
hon0r2 The late Senator Iugalis has
safd The puridcaton Of politics IS an
irridescent dream. The decalog1e and
the golden rule have 10 place ia politics.
Conscience can not allow this moral
dlallzm- Tie Deopie-especlally the
Christian peoule-uusr cease 70 look
upou folrcs as game tcr few law
yers and Statesmen. and with all intell-
senca they can command and with a
deep sense of duty and rsponsibiity
must consider it their own business
But what about our commercial nfer
> This promises TO Sc the problem Of the
TWentferh century Z may be that by
revolution or eviction we shan have q
new Industrial system. with fairer rela-
ITEMS between employer and employee
But no industrial system VIII be perfect
and IN the last analysis what We want
is a better conscience and more of it-a
more intensive and more extensive
application Of conscience % affairs Of
business
Loyalty 70 conscience ln service for
Others wiu b. the demand NJ the Twar-
tieth century, The struggle VIII be fierce
but VIII develop a type OF herolsm be-
side ~ hlch that Of Robson and II F'uns-
ton VIII Jade away IS the stars fade
before the morning sun
IL T. 3rNEILL-
Dr. r. A Schaufer. Cleveland Ohio.
spoke most Interestingly CT the rise Of
the Bohemian church Dr. Schaufer
went IN Bohemia IS a rnissicnary IN 1s-2.
Their srs now one-thlrd OF million 1t
Bohemiars In tie Uuited States. The
greatest hIr5rance 10 the gospel among
The Bohemsaus today IS indtelity The
results a. t1e work which Dr. Schsufesr
directs shows that beginning afteea
years ago IN Cleveland. Ohio the work
now covers eleven states. thirty stations