The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-24
AIR HAVEN NEWS
Gev. Frederick Sumner Says There Is Much Independ- ent Voting-Items
 of Interest.

In the course of hls sermon at the irand Avenue Congregational church yesterday morning, Rev, Frederick A, sumner of Milford said that there was never a time when there was SO much independent voting as today The time k coming when the crack of the par y whip will not bring the voters into Inc as 1t has done,' continued MT, sumner" The time Is coming when the light will prevail. The people demand | clean and honest government in city, tate and nation, The people are find Ing In their hands power in the bal lot by which they can remove from places of trust the people who do not conduct themselves arIght There is in- dependence In thought in action and In voting
 The above and other practical ways, he preacher applied the Scripture les son which formed basis of his ser non The text was taken from the chapter in which God appeared to Moses in the burning bush and gave instructions for him to lead His people out of the bondage of Egypt,
 For 40 years this man Moses was in preparation and then he refused longer to remain in strange land, for he had a people to serve. And then he was in the desert i0 years longer to complete his preparation for his great work. We see him at the burning bush, but the bush was not consumed Ths voice came to him as the voice of Him whom he knew and the God he worshpped. The work of leading his people out of a strange land was a great work. But here we find that Moses was willing when he knew that lie was not to go out to this great work alone. God was to be with him.
 Cannot we today learn some lesson from these examples of the long ago. 1 think we can apply this in no bet ter way than in their children so that they shall be familiar with the respon- abilities of citizenship. IL Is essential that the coming generation should bo trained into the right way of living ! These examples should influence our l legislators and those who make our i laws. They should influence in private life so that the laws of purity and or ' health may be applied in the living of today. If it is in song pr in kind 1 word that is spoken. and we have the : power, let us use these powers in our ! work for others If it Is the capacity i to make money, then we are to use this capacity for God and for His reo- 1 pie There are those who have left 1 their millions for the benefit of man kind. for founding churches and uni versailles and the good that they have thus been able to do cannot be com puted. There are others who have llv- ed for themselves and their great wealth has been no benefit to their fellow' men and they themselves get i no blessing The law of life and of service is paramount to all other | laws. If 1t is a capacity to teach in a Sunday school, or in day school, then l it is well. If in civic and in private life I we cannot do those great things which 1 we would like to do, but If we do what ! we can then wc have performed our { service We sometimes think that only i the great are worthy of notice and yet, | He regardeth no service as small. We i want to he sure that we are Gods man I or Gods woman and then we can go ahead and do tho work that is before us.
 God would have us lead others into His kingdom This Is the message that comes to us today-the message that came to Moses in the long ago when he was told to lead His people out of strange land"
 ] It was a good sermon and abounding ! in many practical lessons. Next Sun day will be the fifth and last of the union services in which the Congrega- tional and the Baptist churches have united in August and the preacher will l he Rev. Dr, ]. Lee Mitchell, formerly l of Fair Haven. and now pastor in l North Attlcboro, Mass.