The Washington herald., 1908-02-17
TALKED ABOUT WORK
Rev. DR.. Gates Lectures at
Y. NJ. c. A. Building.
CHRIST WAS THE CARPENTER
One Outstanding lesson OF the Bible
Is the Dignity and Necessity OF
LnbOr-JudGc De Lacy Gives Adj
dress Denouneing Cheap TheRterS.
William JeSsOp Talks TO Boys.

Or. Merrill E. Gates addressed the
mems meeting in gymnasium hall of
the Young Mems Christian Association
yesterday afternoon on the topic: What
a Carpenter said About Work" The car
penter referred 10 was Jesus Christ. and
one of the statements made by Jesus
was quoted as evidence of His attitude
on the question of labor, as follows: My
Father worketh hitherto. and work"
This was not a fancifuI suggestion
about the carpenters work in those days"
declared the speaker. THE hammer and
plane and saw may not have been quite
like ours, but they were none the less
tools Of the carpenter. The one outstand-
ing lesson which the New Testament
teaches is the dignity and necessity of
labor. and the Scripture which reads.
II a man viii not work, neither shall he
eat. is sOciOlogically a truth Of i'm
meuse importance. So interdcpendent are
we as people to-day that IL all work
were stopped for two weeks chaos and
death would ensue.
Pulling His own weight.
When Jesus said. 7 work, He did not
refer to spiritual effort alonG. but rather.
il would seem. meant He was doing the
faily necessary work OF a man; that He
I Twas producing His share; that He was
pulling His own weight The message Of
Paul was. Let every man bear his own
burden. The idle, rich are not happy,
but the busy rich man, who makes his
life end fortune benediction. may be
happy"
DR.. Gates concluded his address with
tribute TO the Carpenters philosophy Of
life. and declared that the JOY of work
was one of the rewards of embracing
that philosophy.
Next Sunday Mr W. f. Andrews. Of
the Treasury Department. viii speak.
"The juvenile court was inaUgWated
ten years ago i'm Massachusetts said
Judge William II. De Lacy before the
Round Table club Of the Young Mems
Christian Association yesterday after
noon. "The Juvenile Court in Washington
was started ia 1916. Last year we had
see cases. which were put on probation
and as evidence Of the effectiveness of
the probation idea. only sixty of the
number have so far returned to US a
second time"
Judge DE Lacy traced the history Of the
court back OF its formal institution.
showed It's relation To chancery jUrisdic-
tion. in that 90 proposes remedies grow
ing out of the justice Of The situation.
4 severe Arrnignment.
The judge was severe in his arraign-
ment of the cheap theater as an immoral
/ influence upon the youth of this city. and
urged that some institution should take
up this feature and see that clean enter
I tainment be substituted
Opportunity was the topic presented
I before the older boys meeting al the
| Association building in the afternoon by
Mr.. William Jessop. The talk was an ap-
peal to the heroic in the boy, and was
illustrated principally by the life OF David
Livingstone. the African explorer and
missionary. Opportunities come to every
/ boy and the size Of the chance is not
always the determining factor. ANY op-
portunity is "A great one II greatly met "
said Mr. JessOp
( Mr.. Osgood. who has spent many years
+ in China, gave the Knights OF Sir Cod
4 frey a talk on the Chinese Business
Man as 1 Know Him" at their regular
weekly meeting yesterday The boys are
studying Chinese missions under the di-
rection of Mrs A. NJ Chesley.