Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15

Strayer in Tho Homfletic Review, and
the preacher who Wishes to be listened
to must be prepared to answer the
questions whether uttered or unut.
tered, or his hearers. AS 1t II. we are
told, the sermon has made no response
to the needs. the cravings, the exper.
fences. OF the working class. The
sermon IL too often q string OF moral
generaltties or dogmatic assertions:
Men have stayed away from the
churches because our preachtng did
not seem to gear to. their actual .lifo
ana help them where they most needed
help. We have conhned ourselves to
the problems of personal morality and
solved them to the satisfaction q I'll.
Here we have little to say that - new,
for christian standards Of ethics are
familiar to western people. So long
as 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.
we have come to an Industrial or
gani5ation Of the world. Industry alb
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 the Archbishop OF
Canterbury announced recently that he
worked seventeen hours day and had
no time left to form an opinion as to
the solution Of the problem Of the UNI
employed. Mr.. Kier Hardie replied that
a religion which demands seventeen
hours day !. for organization, and
leaves no time for 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 the
ancient shrines. for going back to the
fountains OF our strength. back in our
racial past, for excursions to our an
Gent abode by stream and wood and
seashore. for the revival OF the Joy Of
war. Of the chase, and of tntenSo mem.
bership as found In the great team
games.
The true Sunday will be partly DIFF
ferent for different men. The artist
condemned to office work VIII turn to
his carving, the musician to his violin.
The born teacher will spend his Sun.
day with the children. The nimrod viii
to the woods. the poet to the hills, the
soldier to some athletic contest. That
which he should have been and is not
in his daily work. each man will dill
gently seek on the day given him for
this very purpose.
The forbidding Of such pious pill
grimage on that one day OF the week
consecrated by nature. and by tho
wiser portions Of our law, to the end
that such pilgrimage may be made, Is
not truly Sunday law but a law to
the effect that Sunday shall not exist.
Even those whose good fortune has
placed them among the expressive
trades. the lawyer. the doctor. the busi-
ness man, require some avocation to
keep them fully human and alive. To the
clerk, the factory hand. whose week
day life is within the covers OF .
ledger or in the making OF a simple
muscular contraction-to these sun
day Is their one chance Of life. their
day OF standing erect. Of resumtng the
form and stature Of z man.
Sunday is the day Of the lost talents.
Of unfulflled possibilities, the day for
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 anpaiF.-
Joseph Lee In The Survey.