The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-06
DR., DuBOSR ON THE
EPWORTH LEAGUE.
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the Church, the result of the en-
largement of character and sympa.
thy, growing out of the fact that
there has been greater training, and
out of the further fact that this
training begins at the cradle time,
enabling men to give all the years
of their life in intelligent service.
1t was out of this thought that the
Epworth League grew. By some
it was called a fad of the last cen
fury. Some who thought that the
plans of the fathers, preaching
twice on the Sabbath and holding
forth once upon the week in prayer
meeting, and riding the Circuit,
were good enough. But this was
not enough. Nor was the Sunday
| School enough. Some means must
be used that will be of effect every
day of the week and every hour of
the day. Man has a social side as
we'll as a spiritual side, and an in
tellectual side as we'll as a social
and spiritual side, and the
Church must be projected upon
life every hour of the day
and every minute of the hour. The
Epworth League was a device
looking towards this end.
Every day is heard some one say
that man has a soul to save. It is
not true. Man is a soul, a living
soul, from his finger tips to the
cuticles on the palms of his feet, and
to the tip of each hair of his head.
The problem confronting the
Church today was the 5000, 900,
tender children, boys and girls,
who are directly under the guild
ance of the 5000 pastors of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
What have you done with them,
you who do not use our League,
you who listen not to Our plan,
you who take not our little paper?
What are all of you going to do
with them? That is the problem,
intensified by the fact that it must
be met at once. Angels do not
come any more out of Paradise to
bring bread for those who are hun
cry and water for those who are
athirst, nor does the arch angel fly
across the vaulted heavens to preach
the gospel to the earth. No, the
gospel goes two-foot d, tramp,
tramp, tramp, with the visage of a
Baptist or Methodist minister.
We must care for these children.
That is one phase of the problem.
The other phase is that we must do
it now, or the time will pass away
forever. The average life of an
Epworth League member is about
three years, and during those three
frightful years this work must be
done. That is the problem, and
when you solve that problem you
have solved all the problems of the
c. 1rch.
Those brought in childhood never
give US care or worry or woe. Those
that have kissed and cussed and
lied have wasted most of their gol-
den years and so have little when
they come to lay down their lives
at the feet of Christ. That is the
law by which we must reach for
eign missions and every other
Church work. Our work is to get
the children with the golden years
of their lives still before them.
He described the Epworth
League life, the life that sancti6es
and sweetens-fair blossoms of May
among the almond blossoms of age,
that give promise of only greater
f%ruitfulness. If anybody tells you
that the Epworth League is a place
for counting, don't deny it. But if
he says it is a bad thing, cruelty
him, kill him, bury him fourteen
feet deep in the earth, put a stone
weighing five tons upon his grave
and leave him to his fate. The Ep
worth League husband is a good
thing, Epworth League wives are
good for the young men, and Ep-
worth League counting is a good
thing. He knew from experience
A wise pastor will organize his