Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-31
WORLD SEEKS A
NEW IDEALISM
First Congregational Church
Greets Pastor Returned
from Marlborough
TELLS OF GREAT CONFERENCE
While Midway at Sea Dr.. Day
Hears by Wireless of the
Times Disaster
TELLS OF GREAT CONFERENCE

To the strains OF nome, o"SO'
Home" and the waving Of the Chau-
tauqua salute by congregation tha'
taxed the seating capacity of the
church, the Rev. William Horace Day
returned to his pulpit as pastor of the
First Congregational church yesterday
morning after an absence of five
months passed in European travel.
Following the greeting of DR.. Day
during which hand-clapping was
given, the children of the junior class
filed in review before the pastors OF
the church and presented DR.. Day with
clusters of long-stemmed chrysanthe-
NUNS.
DR.. Day repeated the sermon on
"The Supremacy of Jesus Christ in
the Modern World" which he deliv-
cred at the closing session of the Con-
gregational council recently held in
Boston, prefacing the sermon with a
short statement of his trip and with
words of warm praise for Los An
geles.
AFTER $4,000 miles of travel 1 have
come home with vivid impressions,
tween the two shores on the Atlantic
ocean the wireless told of a great
tragedy in Los Angeles. The west
with its great Wilderness is like the
great Wilderness of Gods mercy, and
/ shall not soon forget the beauty and
the possibility for things that i'm
pressed me on again returning to Los
Angeles. AS 1 passed the SCARED and
shattered building at First and Broad
way realized the imperative neces-
sity that our church should serve the
community in making it what 1t
should be-
DIFFICULT TASK
Dr. Day took his text from Matt. %:
Is, and said in part:
1.-The supremacy of Jesus Christ in
the modern worlds he winning or
losing, are we in the midst of a grad
ual defeat or in the midst of a GER
tain victory?
Jesus Christ is king, but even in
christendom there are those who do
not acknowledge him. is the Chris
tian church equal, or is it losing
ground? I come back from the great
Marlborough conference, perhaps the
greatest gathering of Christians since
the first century, with two impress
sions: the difficulty of the task of
making Christ supreme and the posi-
blity of success.
"One could not attend the meeting at
Marlborough without gaining a sense
of the obstacles, gigantic as they are
because of the vast untouched area.
One of the most important facts was a
published atlas showing the missionary
centers and great stretches whose
menotony was unbelieved by the mis-
sionaries. Fully 250,000,OO0 people be-
long to this untouched area.
There is the incompleteness of re-
suits in missionary work. Who has
visited a great oriental city and has
gone with almost Wearisome labor to
see it all, who of us but thank God for
what is being done and who has not
turned away with the thought. what
are these among so many?" In Cairo
1 wandered into one of the book stores
and there | found Heckle's Riddle OF
the Universe" which signifies much in
the midst of a non-Christian land. II
the life of the church at home be de-
cayed then the Christian missions viii
die of heart disease-nay, rather Of
head disease.
SEEK TRUE FOUNDATION
MEN on both sides of the Atlantic
are realizing that they have failed t
learn of Jesus Christ. Germans, Britons
Americans and all the rest, are seek
ing for a true foundation for the new
idealism for a better day Our time il
tired of merely naturalism. There i!
rising in the thought world a new APP
probation of the spiritual. Today al
never before the great army of schools
and colleges with their young peopl,
with hearts wide open are ready t
hear the still small voice as it Whis
pers and commands.
1.-THE possibility of success is assured
at home and abroad. On that atla
were the red dotted spots showing TIN
mission field in the great untouched
areas, but as the great, strategic gate
ways you will find the little red do
for the missions. In spite of all w,
sorrow and are ashamed as we mus
be of the wrong, the waste and tn
folly of sectarianism in these fields.
IF we want a human solidarity w
must preach the gospel. There is Onl,
one place where you can turn ca'
into a brother, and that is at the foo
of the cross.
"MOhamet, Islam with sword, knife
fire and pillage, are poWerless to estab
lish a human solidarity. In Alana
raVaged by it's massacre, to whom ha
the hey turned, who Is to bring to tina
city a renaissance?
"The Rev. William Chamberlain, tn
hero of Adana. To him the hey turn
as one that is to teach Turk and Chris
tan the foundation for a human solid
arity where liberty and fraternity ma,
be found, and the time is coming whel
every knee will bow in the name o
Jesus Christ as King of Kings ant
Lord of Lords"