Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-18

Baptist church: Wednesday. known as
Church day" meetings in every
church at 10 a. M; Thursday to be
"MidweelS. Sabbath" when every bust
ness man is asked to give up bust
ness as much as possible so as to
allow employees to attend service at
10 a. m. at the Central Baptist
church; Frday afternoon at Central
Baptist church at 3 p. M, address by
DR.. Slough, to women only all mem
bers of women's clubs invited.
While the collection was taken, Cor
netist Cunningham rendered the solo.
God Will Take Care of You, and was
called upon for an encore by insistent
applause.
Winds and Whirlwinds.
A few words from Hosea. They
have sown the wind and shall. reap the
whirlwind, made the text for DR..
Stough's sweeping arraignment of some
of the sins designated as prevalent
among men of the present day. Refer
ring to the fact that sowing and reap
ing are inseparable and that reaping
in kind is the perpetual law depended
upon in the physical world. he said in
part: :.
If this law is true there. how much
more true ten thousand times over is
it in the spiritual world. There is no
escape here and the harvest will be
determined in its kind by the sowing.
Will you tell me how a man in bust
ness can be intellectual and keen and
sharp. but in morals play the fool?
How can the solid. substantial BUSH
ness men of your community ignore
the things of the spiritual world. re-
.,pudiating the God who Z has poured
blessings on them in thousand
WaYsi
There are men who are sowing an
awful crop when they poison the i'm
agiHation of the boys who hear their
talk on street corners from lips that
are blight and poison to the COM
munity. They are opening the sluice-
gates Of life to the incoming of every
other kind of sin. No man has the
right to blaspheme the name of God,
" hose name is good and holy. He'll
reap it in the devastation of all that
is dearest to him
There are men today who are sow
ing the seeds of dishonesty in the
gambling habit and unless this is
purged from our commercial life, this
nation win 20 the way of others that
have gone down before it. Every man
in the mad rush for wealth is tempted
10 take the short cut, the questionable
way. the sin of gambling. which is
nothing but gentlemanly robbery. 1t
is debauching our young men, and in
Chicago it is a warrant for dismissal
from employ ment when any young
man is found with race track dope
sheet in his possession.
Square Thanked by Saloons.
Then there are men today that are
sowing for another awful harvest and
what shall I say of the impression
given of your city except that it is
rum ridden. when / see it's triangle in
the center thanked by saloons. We
have enthroned the great American
rattlesnale the saloon, behind its
glass fronts, and it is poisoning our
BOYS to death. God forbid that We
should furnish human hearts and souls
to business like that. (Applause.)
Nv heart aches for the drunkard, but
the man that I'm afraid of is the gen.
tleman in his broadcloth and dia-
monds and spotless linen. who sits in
his club in all his elegance, slipping
his liquor. I'd rather have twenty
staggering drunkards in the block
where ! live than one of the kind OF
gentlemen | have described. This gen.
tleman. who takes his liquor or let's
it alone, as he win tell you (and he
usually takes it,. is the one that viii
catch my boy.
Some of us are sowing seeds of inn
purity. | am no unkind critic of my
sex but / say that whenever the wom-
anhood of this country falls as low as
the manhood of our nation the country
is doomed 0Applause.1 A statement
has been made by competent authority
that so per cent. of the men in our
cities are affected with venereal dis
eases and statistics of high school pu-
pills have shown that 80 per cent OF
them are guilty of some form of sexual
irregularity. l don't believe it, but If
it's half true it's tremendously start
ling.
Coward or HyPocrite.
We have lost our old fashioned chiv-
airy through the smutty story and no
man who listens TO one unrebuked but
insults in the vilest way the women of
his own household. There is no rule
for this but for every man to treat
every woman as he would have another
man treat his mother or his daughter
or his wife. (Applause) ! have no
consideration for the man who says
these houses of i'll fame are necessity.
If you say so you are either coward
or a hypocrite, unless you are willing
TO furnish a daughter for the business.
] am here under God to warn men of
their dangers and then to tell them
this. that however they have sinned
and failed. | have the only thing under
heaven that viii help a man TO live
Alright. The hope of lost men is the
Christ of Calvary who is the only one
that can save the lost.
The evangelist closed with an APP
peal for every man to leave for his
children the memory of a cody life,
and then asked for hands to be shown
by those who would indicate their de-
sire for Christian life. Many re
sponded in this way.
$500 at Evening Service.
addressed to the largest congregation
of the series of meetings, about 900,
and was an especially eloquent pre-
sentiment of the topic of Repentance,
richly illustrated with appropriate in
stances touchingly related. He laid
down the definition that repentance is
the recognition of Il wrong course in
life and a determination to forsake it.
He pressed home the forgiveness Of
fered to repentant sinners by Jesus
and the power that He gives to live
day by day. At the close many hands
were lifted in response to DR. Stough's
invitation for those who wanted to
show their desire to live a Christian
life.
Before the sermon there was a song
service led by the big choir and Mr..
Herring sang with fine expression and