Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16

tho preacher who Wishes to be listened
to must 6e prepared to answer the
questions whether uttered or unut.
tered, OF his hearers. AZ Il a. we are
told. the sermon has made no response
to the needs, The cravings, tho. exper-
fences. OF the working class. The
sermon 10 TOO often . string OF moral
generaAfies Or dosmatic asseetions:
Men have stayed away from the
churches bscause OUT preaching did
not seam to gear to their actual life
and help them where they most needed
help. We have confined ourselves to
the problems Of personal morahty ana
solved them to the sa4ssfaction Of III.
Here we have little to Say that u uew.
for christian standards Of ethics are
familiar to western people, So long
n we restrict ourselves to personal
morality We are saying nothing that
the people do not know already And
that great new world Of industry with
its immense ethical problems, where
men are losing their way for want Of
guidance. we moral teachers have
scarcely entered.
I'VE have come to an indust1ialsor-
gani1atton OF the world. Industry abb
serbs the life of the people. II we have
nothing to say about industrial right
and wrong we have little to say that
matters When tho Archbishop of
Canterbury announced recently that he
worked seventeen hours a day and had
no time left to form an opinion as to
the solution OF the problem OF the un-
employed. Mr.. KieF Hardie replied that
a religion which demands seventeen
hours day for organization. and
leaves no time for q single thought
about starving and despairing men and
women and children. has no message
for this age"
Sunday, Day Of Lost Talents.
Sunday is the day for revisiting tho
ancient shrines. for going back to the
fountains Of our strength, back in our
racial past, for excursions to our an.
cient abode by stream and wood and
seashore. for the revival OF the joy Of
war, Of the chase. ana Of intense mem.
bership as found ID; the, great team
games.
The true Sunday will be partly Diff
ferent for different men. The artist
condemned to office work will turn 70
his carving. the musician TO his violin.
The born teacher win spend his Sum
day With the chEdran. The nimrod will
to the woods. the poet to the hills, tho
oOIuA<E ~ oOlu0 AIuISIIC COnxCSI. xu8S
which he should have been and Is not
in his daily work. each man will din.
gently seek on the day given him for
this very purpose.
The forbidding Of such pious Pill
grimage on that one day Of tho week
consecrated by nature, ana by the
wiser portions OF our law. to the end
that such pilgrimage may Be made, 10
not truly Sunday law but law to
tho effect that Sunday shall not exist.
Even those whose good fortune has
placed them among the expressive
trades. the lawyer. the doctor. the bust
ness man. require some avocation to
keep them fully human ana alive. To the
clerk. the factory hand. whose week
day life is within the covers Of
ledger or in the making Of simple
muscular contrAction-to these Sum
day Is their one chance Of life. their
day OF standing erect. OF resumtng the
form and stature Of . man.
Sunday IS the day Of the lost talents,
OF unfulflled possibilities. the day Tor
keeping alive some little fragment Of
the original gift that nature made. And
this one day our Sunday laws take
from us. or at least greatly impeie.-
Joseph Lee In The Survey.