The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-12-08

the aid of cane, entering the pail
aces and entering the inove!s, the
sanity General Booth. There is no
church in the land which would not
be packed to .suffocation If 1t were
throbing with love.
LUXURY AND POVERTY.
"Neyer was there such luxury in
the land as there is today AS |
walked down Fifth avenue the other
day, took note Of the hotels, ver-
table palaces in magnincence. Yet,
never was there such a call for help
from the poor and the dire pover,y
stricken. \ laboring man grown old
before his time from overworlI made
answer to an appeal TO join the Chris.
tian love A kind word for the groc-
cry boy who comes TO your door each
morning; a bright smile for the
clerk who waits on you at the store;
your card with single sentence I'm
so sorry left at the door with the
swinging crepe in 1.-THE poorer district
of your town; that is being a Chris
tian. You could have the apostle
Paul in the pulpit,and kill his preach
ing by what you are in the pew. You
say the preacher in the pulpit makes
the church, and say the people in
the pews make the church. What
we need is a revival of the old time
religion, which is nothing more than
the spirit OF my text, which is love.
BELIEVES IN BIBLE.
IL believe in the book from cover
to cover. believe in its integrity
and in the sacrifclal death of the Son
of God. A fragrant mistake of the
sociologists is that they magnify the
deeds of mercy too much, and the
actualities of the Bible not enough.
THE REAL CHRISTIAN.
'HIt's great to be a Christian!
don't mean to be an elder in the
church, look prim and sanctimon-
ious and then go home and be crcss
with the wife and children and unfair
with your employees. | mean a
Chrstian--not the sort that is pres
ident of the missionary, society and
speaks 30 gently in meetings and then
has another voice in the home--l
mean "a Christian. l don't mean be
church member and play whist and
bridge and all that. Listen mothers,
II were you and had q boy, I'd rath
er cut Off my right hand than touch
card in game. I've held in these
arms boys taken from gaming tables;
with these hands I've smashed in
doors behind which sons OF the best
families were eagerly fumbling the
cads, and tell you it Is a passion,
The mother of my children is dead,
but | would be disgraced for time
and she would be disgraced for eter-
nifty II she had left for their herit-
age the memory Of worldling or
devotes of the card table. Mothers
leave for your boys a pure Christian
memory. Fathers, have the same
spirit--not Indifferent fathers, not
fathers holding their sons TO worldli-
ness, but fathers.
LOVE is ALL.
THE story of matchless life, |
hold before in this upHfted Bi6leq
How could you be selfish, how could
you close your eyes to the poor and
the wretched with this supreme Fs'
senee of love in your life?"
z q SINGING EFFBCrINE. n.
While the spell of DR.. Chapmhh's
appeal still held sway over the hearts
OF the listeners, Mr.. Nattzger sang
'His Thought" Nothing more eff
fectiye than this exquisite bit OF mel
ody, the composition OF Mr., Hark-
ness who is also one of the Chapman
Alexander force acting in the ca
pacity of accompanist for Mr., Alex
ander, can be imagined.
The benedictlon pronounced by Rev.
Barnard closed the service.