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 A sermon appropriate to this Thanks giving season was delivered at the Grand avenue Baptist church yester- day morning by the pastor, the Rev. P. | W. Stone, on: ''The Church and the Ma ton" Some of the thoughts brought out by the speaker are given below: | Corruption everywhere is prevalent. 4 low moral sense prevails. Virtue is down and vice is all about. l will not say that we in this country are any verse than the people of other coun- tries. but evil is an accumulative force.
 Now, how is our nation to be saved from these things? Can it be accom- plished by the enforcement of laws, by education, by learning? see help in no other way than from the church of God, just as in the Israel of old, help came out of Zion. The mission of God is to leaven the world. The church of God is here to be of assistance to the unwholesome and to save the world. Not that the church is the sevlor, but that salvation is to come through the church. It Is the church that is to send out the healing streams to the world. The salvation of our country is to come out of the church as came the salvation of Israel of old.
 The United States is the only eoun- try where the separation of the church and state Is absolute. This country has tested this system for 120 years and is satisfied with it. We should not lose responsibility to the nation in the church wherever we are. How the church to-day loses sight of this re- sponsibility! How the church as a whole stands aloof from it's responsibil- ity for the moral and spiritual welfare of the nation.
 .The salvation of the nation is to come from the church of Christ. How shall the church discharge this respon- sibility and obligatios to the nation2 We need to brush away the cobwebs | from our brain as to sin and salvation. The foreigner comes to our shores and we fear his influence upon our civil life. l We forget that 1t Is our duty to go back to the life itself and improve that life. Christ alone can save this life and bring it up to his standard.
 ''As a church we should have a clear conception of sin and of the salvation of Jesus Christ Then the church must set new conception of how Christ Is to be presented to men. The church must grope her way into the lanes and alleys of the city. She must press upon the entire surface of society She was or ganized for the spiritual salvation of the world end of the nation.
 something Is lacking in our system of education in Connecticut. Some ad- vocate the teaching of the Bible in the schools. We as a church must devise some system to teach men the position they are to assume towards the state. The church musts set a standard of living for the nation. Yale college was one of the first institutions of learning in the land to fit men for employment in church and state; and so must we do as a church. There are members of the church who break every law of God dtlu Uldl lAletl lliS IOA POl9lVAA AiASkt they are interested may earn dividends.
 "The church must! realize the great Christian truth of the brotherhood of man. The failure of the church to live up to this Is where it has lost it's pow CT over men--they can find more fellow ship in lodges and societies. Christiar- ity at the bottom is conradship. The first place men should go for comrad- ship is to the church; how often is 1t the last.
 If the church does not save the rla- tion the privilege and power in 1t will be taken away. The moral corruption is seen in this country In it's tens of thousands of divorees. We should not forget the responsibility that is upon us as a church that this land may be saved. The salvation of Israel must come out of Zion-out of the church of the living God,
 A harvest praise{ service was held at the East Pearl street M. Fl. church last evening in place of the regular preach- ing service, and was largely attended. The musical service was rendered by Ithe vested choir, assisted by an anti phonal choir of about thirty voices sei- Ilected from the Sunday school, the lat ter singing in the church gallery. There were anthems, professionals, chorals, and songs, in an excellent arrangement and affording fine music.
 The Rev. Dr. Sheath of the Grand avenue Congregational church ex- changed with the Rev. George Foster Prentiss of the Davenport church in the morning.
 Deacon R. c. Smith is ill at his home on Perkins street.
 Frank Fowler has been elected clerk of the Ecclesiastical society of the Grand avenue Baptist church in place of George s. Adams, resigned, and Flu gene Rowe was chosen to fill a similar vacancy on the music committee. Live Oak council, Royal Arcanum, ! will tender a reception to Supreme Re gent Robinson and Vice Supreme Re- : gent Wiggins on the evening of Decen- Der 15. At the next council meeting of ficers will be elected for the coming year.
 J MT. and Mrs. George Hollien and : niece, Miss May Heaney of AS Houston ,. street, have returned fro ma visit to I Mir. Hollien's mother, Mrs. Maria Hol- 1 lien, in Colchester. The elder Mrs Hollien accompanied them home and will remain here during the winter. l Mrs p S Evans of Rronk1yn for.