The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-18
Rev. j. p. Currin Delivers
an Able Sermon.
WATCHES AN ARTIST At WORK
Calls Attention to New Fed
eral Building.
Bases Sunday Evening Sermon on
the Work of the Carver Who Is
Now Decorating the Post Office
Building-Church News of Sunday.

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Drawing his lesson from watching
the master workmcn on the new post
office building, Rev. j. p. Currin last
evening delivered forceful sermon
TO a congregation that packed the
First Baptist church to overnowlng
The pastors topic was Cutting Lion
Heads and Eagle Wings" The re-
marks were based upon the text in
1 John 80, 1T does .iot yet appear
what we shall be-"
The pastor said that he had OBJ
served the workmen cutting out of
solid stone on the government build
ing, heads of lions and wings of
eagles.S lie introduced his subject by
saying:
1--WE are all privileged to see as we
go through life the things that are
beneficial. There must be a process
in the molding of our lives; the pro-
cess is cutting. The lions and the
eagles were in the stones but IL re-
quired the brain and delft hands
of the master workmen to make them
appear. The workmen must have
vision and then it is only question
of time until the head and wings
appear. So IT is with us. Through
preachers, statesmen, teachers and
ourselves come out these qualities
which then become incarnate in u.s."
Rev. Mr.. Currin recalled the story
of the bound boy who was helping
to prepare a royal banquet. The boy
saw an immense roll of butter and
asked permission to arrange 1t on the
table. He nodded II until IL assumed
the shape of n friar with hood and
gowns. An artist who was at the
banquet saw the work of a master
hand in the molding of the butter
and became the patron of the boy
who afterward came to be one of the
worlds famed artists. The boy had
the vision that no one else did and
brought beauty and strength into n
by deft finger.
"If process is cutting then there
must be a product. The heads and
wings cut into the stone, do not stand
for much alone but brought into the
building they add strength and beau
ty These are inseparable for beauty
rests on strength. On the post Of
flee building the lion heads are
symbolic of the strength of Republic
an government while the wings pic
ture the speed OF the mails"
The pastor closed with the story of
Michael Angelo., aged blind and
feeble, being brought into a room to
feel of certain marbles which had
been discovered and were believed to
have been the work of a master hand.
AS the hand of the artist moved over
the smooth surfaces his wrinkled
face lit up with a smile and he soli-
loquized;
Thank God, 1t is the hand of the
master Thidias, the greatest of them
ALL" 80 we are to recognize that
we are being worked on by the
Master. The beauty and the strength
is within us If we will but permit
Him to work"
The Y. NJ. C. A. quartet furnished
excellent music during the evening.
Sabbath morning the congregation
of the First Baptist church had the
pleasure and profit Of hearing Mrs.
Howard Dudley, "A Burmese mission
airy on leave of absence, talk OF
the life and work in the Indian col
ony.
Mrs. Dudley chose as her subject
"Burmahns, Wise and Otherwise"
and presented some exceedingly in
formation under this broad caption
She first emphasized the fact that
in order to do effective work the mis-
sionary must acquire the native lang
uage in order to gain the confidence
of the people and be really one of
them. she told of a young and ear
nest worker who went into the field
and was early called upon to per-
form a marrige ceremony. He could
read the language but not under
stand It. Imagine the chagrin on the
part of the wedding guests when tho
young minister, not understanding
the difference between "nyama'
meaning woman, and "nwama"
meaning cow, asking the bridegroom
IL he would take this COW to be his
lawful welded wife.
Mrs Dudley says the natives are
reached religiously in three ways;
first through medicine; second
through preaching and third through
the schools. Invaribly she found that
when a cure had been effected or
some sufferer had been benefited by
medical treatment those about the
patient were willing to listen to the
Christian religion of love. Like their
progressed brothers in civilized lands,
the natives want results, Mrs. Dudley
believes the best work cannit be done
by missionaries until they are better
equipped. They themselves are up
to-date, but their working material
Is sadly out If fashion and the schools
are reaping a vast harvest of Christ
ians in Burmah. Half the expense
of these religious and educational in
stitutions are borne by the English
government which is assisting in re-
claiming the superstitious Ill fed, Ill
clothed and starved milliona of India
from final mental and moral oblivion.
The speaker closed with a humor-
Gus incident of her sailing. The schol
'ars Of her school petitioned for a
holiday in honor of the event. The
request was granted, and this letter