Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-26
DECLARES WORLD IS
WEARY OF THEORIES
MINISTERS MUST PRACTICE
WHAT THEY PREACH
Andrew Park Says Christians Should
Lend Helping Hand to Men
Who Are DoWn-Age
of Fraternallsm

Andrew Park addressed large audi
tnce last evening at the old Metro
politan theater on East Fifth street,
which is now being used for services by
the Methodist church under a pastor
al by Rev. George Foster. The sub
ject was IA Brothers Hand"
1.-THE world Is hungry for the gos-
pel" said the speaker-"the practical,
good Samaritan gospel. 1t is SICK or
theories. Sicker now than ever before.
II is rebellins at the mention of the
cries. 1t is turning deaf ear to the
theorist He is fast losing respect. A
ministry that offers nothing to the hum
CRY but theoretical crusts is mockery.
"Is "A man down? A dogmatic priest
hood will pause long enough to look at
him-gratify curiosity-and then pass
on, one on one side and the other on
the other, and. maybe, both will say
Poor fellow. The Lord have mercy on
him. and pass on. But such minlstra-
lions as that would injure well man.
il is bad enough to be down. but 1t Is
d,ubly bad to be down, and while down
to be reminded that your fellow man Is
gratified and satisfied to look at you.
Lesson from Tennessee
81 knew a stingy church member who
kept a hotel in Tennessee, and one
night. cold and dark, a distant relative
of Henry Clay applied for lodging and
something to eat, but with an air of ur-
banity that did honor to the memory or
the great statesman he informed the
host that he was penniless, and was re-
fused as an improbable guest. But
while he was at the end of his cash, he
was not at the end of his wits, and he
promised the landlord that If he would
entertain him he would tell him some
thing the next morning that would be
very valuable to him, and the offer was
accepted The next morning, when the
guest was about to depart and was In
the midst of expressions of profound
thanks to the generous landlord. he was
reminded of his promise to give the
valuable information.
ooh. yes said the gentlemen of the
crossties. I was about to forget. But
II is this: If you find a man down In
the world. don't stop to ask him how
he came to be down. but just help him
up Good morning, mine host
Help for Jews
THAT is good gospel. That is the
kind the world needs. No greater in
Jury can be done a man who is down
than to stand by and comment on his
misfortune and offer him no assistance.
II a man is hungry. words are poor
substitute for heefsteak.
ut is mockery to ask God to help a
man who is down while you have the
ability to lift him up, but viii not do It,
This is an age of fraternalism. Christ
taught the gospel Of the common broth
erhood of mankind. and wherein the
church has been inactive the world has
been active More people Joined fra
ternal organizations within the past
twenty-five years than Joined in a hun
dred years before.
But our churches are awakening to
this vital principle. The ministers are
forgetting petty differences of creeds
and are preaching and practicing a
practical gospel.
But in one rspect Christians are
derellct. and that is toward our Hebrew
brethren. Every nation that has helped
and honored the Jew has helped and
honored itself The nations that have
prosecuted the Jews have cursed them
selves. Russia tried the experiment
and tried 1t to it's ruin. To the true
Christian there is no richer millennium
than the prophetic day when Jew and
Gentle, bond and free, rich and poor
shall be one common brotherhood in
Christ. But this must be practiced as
we'll as preached before it will be real
ized"