The Newtown bee., 1905-11-24
leaves his track until he is smashed into fragments in an a cident, or wears out and is thrown upon the refuse heap as scrap iron,
A primrose by a rivers brim A yellow primrose is to hta And 1t is nothing more.

AhS heap as scrap iron.
 primrose by rivers brim
 yellow primrose is to him
 And 1t is nothing more.
 A contractor once visited the Wash ington monument. On being asked regarding it, it was evident he was not impressed with it's beauty; he replied that it was the tallest one-story building he ever saw.
 Where there is no prayer, no wOr- ship, no devotion, there you may look for lowered human relationships, lower planes of thought and of morality, SlumberouS consciences, hardened na- lures, and a bunting of the finer senses of duty.
 The ministry of worship? It is to make earth seem what it is-the portal of heaven. It is to make men live like brothers of the Christ among the brethren of the Christ, and to hallow all human relations. Fortunately in every human heart there is shrine, if you can only find it. The fire may have gone out upon the altar, but the altar is there."
 The third paper of the afternoon was by Charles A. Dinsmore of Water bury on the "Ministry of life to life." He said: "The most conspicuous fail uIC Ol UuC CllulCl UO-udJ duO 1O1 OlC past few generations has been it's in- ability to lead in civic righteousness. The church has established in popular thought a gospel of consolation. It has set up a we'll recognized ideal of personal purity, but has set up no code of civic righteousness by which men must perfOrce govern themselves. We have raised no recognized standard to which good men may repair. We do not see eye to eye, we have no careful and vital vision of public affairs. The Saddest feature of the whole matter is that the church does not contain larger body of men who habitually sense all questions from the standpoint of general welfare. The churches are not collections of individuals who in- variably take all problems beyond tri- bunals of what is polite and fashion able and prof table to the severe judg- ment seat of the right. We look at public questions as partisans, taxpay- CTS, dividend receivers, rather than Christians. The great body of Chris tian people do not strive to consider general matters disinterestedly. The welfare of all is not the dominant thought. Christian people of a ham, let or city quite habitually decide civic issues according to their selfish inter- ests. They look upon politics, laws, movements from standpoints of party advantage or private gain or class prejudice"
 "If 1 were in charge of large city church," continued the speaker, II would want an assistant an upright man who was not a minister; who would mingle in public affairs, attend public meetings, caucuSeS, etc., accept public offices if nominated and elected; If possible become member of legis- lative bodies, and at frequent inter- vals occupy the pulpit, giving the re- suit of his experiences and observa- tiOnS." It occurred to your delegate that such man would need to be but little short of a Jerome, as he would fail to have votes enough to elect him to these offices, we having an object lesson in the experience of the mOder- ator of the conference, Judge Cleave- land.
 The principal feature of the evening was a paper by President Harris of Amherst. This was very interesting but deep theological handling of his topic, and of course difficult for me to report. l was, however, much inter- ested in his allusion to the Sunday school. He said that the original idea of establishing the Sunday school was l UO oOPPly lCllS lOuo lAOol OSuloA uO Shll dren who did not receive it in any oth- CT way. He said there was danger of the Sunday school taking the place of any religious instruction in the home, the parents relying on this to relieve them of any personal responsibility in this matter. The Sunday school should not beconO the children's $ church in any sense; that all children reaching the age of eight or ten years ] should attend church services.
 On Wednesday morning Judge Sim con B. Baldwin delivered an able pa. per on "The church and the conner cial spirit,' ; which was listened to with much interest. This was followed by a most interesting address on "The church, the antagonist of caste," by Rev John H. Grant of Meriden. He said: "IIow shall the church offset and drive out the caste spirit? First by it's office of interpretation. The races have all their place in the plan of God. To despise any race is an act of faithleSsnesS in God. Wealth and privilege must be interpreted also as servants of the kingdom. This teach. ing, finally, must be re-enforced by example. The church is ideally the most democratic body in the world It cannot speak of God and be loyal tC the divine point of view except it be democratic, for God is no respecter of persons A gentleman was invited tc