Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-02
GRENFELL GIVES
FINAL ADDRESS
SPEAKS AT FIRST METHODIST
CHURCH AUDITORIUM
LAups GOSPEL OF DEEDS, NOT
THAT OF WORDS
Grou Vessels Driven Out of Service
by international Law, and Lab
radcr Today Is Without
One Saloon

IAy--
ST expect that if Christ were to De
tempted on the mountain today the
devil would offer him whole row Oh
automobiles. You can buy man
soul with an automobile sometimes: II
is done every day." said DR.. Wlltred l.
Grenfell. the patron saint of Lapra.
dor" last night before an audience ,t slet
taxed the seating capacity Oh the -
Methodist church auditorium, saIetS
and sunday school room, aIter nun
dreds of people had been turned amas
without being able TO gam auiiii
to the building.
Tt was the farewell meeting oil III:
csrenfeu held under the auspices OF
the Church Federation. DIR. T.. +. NY
land. president of the federalloh' PiS
sided. Rev. William Horace Day llaue
a short preliminary address' niC IL IN
inc Rev. William MacCormack, VINO III
turn introduced the speaker, paying
him high tribute. -, 5o,, i,
DR.. Grenfell, after passing the day IN
climbing Mt. Wilson, gave spiItiseu
address. giving a short idea OF ms me
ology' and of the field of work MnIt tl
he has covered within the past twenty
years. - ,u+ NOV, 10
hiring neople to Christ was to be aple
to make a, good speech" said DR.. Gren,
fen oI am a doctor of medicine, ana
if he serveth best who speakest pest
then I have mistaken my mlssion'
INV idea of a Christian man Is one
who follows Jesus Christ. If a man
g., daily life doesn't do so, then l ques-
tion his Christian life. My loea Is
that the best follower of Jesus chris.
is he who follows most Closely SnG
who in matters of every day NE uoS =
as near as he can to what Jesus "oO4''
do. ,;fo +o oive
us inv. or we are seeking to give some-
thing to life When L was youiis
never went TO church, because the lives
of the preachers didn't interest me.
was doing maternity work III 6oLG i'I
bosnitaI when one night passed ols
tent and went in. One man was oe-
livering a long prayer, and was dpout
70 Ieave-it didn't interest me. just as
was about to leave a man got up anu
caid. while our brother is nnlsnlhs
his prayer we will sing a hymn. ina
struck me as about right. 1hat was
lust what I wanted to say $500 80
through that meeting of ID. L. MOODY
end Came away a different man.
have nothing to boast OF. l ndu no
reason to be religious. God had plesseo
me with an income with which L could
b1v the pleasures of the world. BUT l
learned that those with nothing could
get something that l could not
ReIiqion Practical Thing
"Religion is practical thing. 1t
gives an opportunity in life that moth
ing else can. Faith in Jesus ChrlsI
takes away sin from our lives. ana
makes new men and women anu new.
homes. This is my theology:
"In 1889, when 1 left Oxford, there
were two lives open before me; one
which [ had chosen, was that OF a sur
econ i'm London. There l could give a
ten-course dinner and have my box at
the opera, and could expect social
recognition which Goa nad peeh , ple"s ..o
to put into my life. | could i've re-
specially and die and lie under g mar
BILE monument Suppose at the END
left a big fortune and mansion. REQ
ple would say that l had lived a sue
cessful life. Yet in one OF your rlchest
and biggest schools here L recently
asked the head master how many or the
boys had gone out to the mission field,
and he could name but six He SAD
they were too rich for that sort of
thing. 1t wasn't wide enough in scope
for them, and they must enter the pusl-
ness world. If you think that IS BEST
go and do it. Don't play at religion
Don't do it half way. If you serve that
kind of a God who pays in that which
is material, you can buy mans soul
with an automobile.
II liked the sea and always wanted
to go to sea. l would rather be on the
sea any day than on your desert.
through which l have been travelling.
The environment of a sailors life al
WAYS appealed to me. Anyone who
loves men could not help loving sailors,
They are not the sort of champagne
bottle men that you sometimes see.
have been twenty years among the deep
sea fishermen and have not yet seen a
case of nervous prostration. The con-
ventions never had any attraction Tor
me. I am here tonight in the usual ap-
parel out of respect for you, ana not
because I like 1t.
With Deeds, Not Talk
81 serve with pills, plasters, poultice
and splint. One reason that l didn't
want to be a Christian was because l
probably would have to make speech.
The fishermen don't need speeches, but
they need to know you. II is easy TO
tell them of Jesus Christ, but you must
have a right to tell them, and then you
must be sure that you will gain
hearing.
Il remember one man on the north
sea in a little smack who actually
didn't know the name of Jesus Christ,
and called him Jimmy Christ. Grog
vessels used to be one of the great
problems. Today tnere are III Sl john ,
harbor fifty-seVen saloons. But in the
north sea all the grog vessels have
been driven out, and there are today
thirteen mission vessels fishing for a
living and preaching the gospel. We
have an international law against the
sale of liquor on the seas. There are no
saloons in Labrador, and, please God,
they shall be driven out Of st. Johns
Dr.. Grenfelrs statements met with
hearty applause and many stayed
after the service to shake hands with
him. It. was announced at the service
that George Baer son of John Willis
Baer. president Of Occidental college,
and Thaddeus Jones Of Pasadena, both
students of Occidental college, had vol
unteered to do mission work with Dr..
Grenfell in Labrador next summer.
DR.. Grenfell will leave this morning
for Santa Barbara and will then go to
the northern universities. He will visit
several of the large eastern cities and
then tour Canada to raise funds for
sailors institute for st. Johns harbor.
More than $4,000 had been raised in
Southern California for this work pre-
vious to the collection taken up last
night, which added several hundred to
the total.
Thieves Rob Church