The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-07-14

Individuals known in common p~arlance
as live wires'-people who do things.
The illustrious Roosevelt is the best
known man in the world today be-
cause he did things and is still do
ing them.
| know of no better advertiser than
Theodore Rooseyelt-Barnum was a
pigmy alongside of Teddy.
The nearest approach to successful
advertising that the church has made
ir modern times has been in the great
revival meetings such as those CON
Quoted by Moody and Sankey. Their
compaign was one of the greatest adj
vertising uplifts the Christian religion
has ever been given in years.
There is no reason in my mind why
a campaign should not be waged by
the church, just as the politicians
wage them, to arouse the people and
to keep the newspapers as full of the
doings of the church people, and tne.r
far more vital purposes, as they are
of political topics, tariff and tax dis
cussions.
You get a part of your Sunday SER
mons in the paper, but n day in
the week is not sufficient, in these
days OF tremendous competing attrac-
tons and antagonistic influences, to-
advertise the thing you have to offer.
This is a busy, pushing world, and
its people must be reached and preach
ed to as they run.
We are just as likely to be unmind-
full of u souls as Of our bodies, and
as we are not convinced of the mer.
its of any mans foodstuffs or his
panacea for our ills, unless he keeps
banging away at us, neither are we
easily brought to believe that we
need religion for u souls sake.
This is an age of big and wonder
full things-miracles are being wrought
on every hand. The world is so crowd.
ed with great men that none seem to
loom up as the few great ones stood
above the masses in the past.
There are many thousands doing
great deeds and making sacrifices of
themselves for mankind, and for spir-
itual, intellectual and material prog
ress that we can scarcely note them.
There are so many heroes every
hour of every day that we cannot
begin to count them. Comparatively
few get medals, fewer still have mon
uments erected to- their memory.
History is being made more rapidly
than it can be recorded.
There is so much of everything do
ing that We have not a moment to
look backward, and if the church per-
sists in looking backward and eternal
ly dragging out the dry bones of the
dead past, it is almost certain to lose
its prestige and its place in the af
fairs of men on earth today.
Tho church must turf it's face for
ward.
1t must plan for tomorrow; it mus
be ready to fight the daily battles o
mankind or it will cease to be use
full. and that which it not useful vii
die.
The church has mixed SO little il
real live movements for the common
good that when q clergyman essay
to touch a political or social subjec
\ in the pulpit, or the church or tn
church organizations take a stand o.
any public question, it is regarded a
an impertinence and the church folk
are told that it is none of their affair
that we cannot mix religion an
politics.
But there is no good reason in tn
world why the church should not TAX
q stand for pure politics and fight fC
the election Of trustworthy men
office, for both spiritual and materii
reasons. 1t makes a mighty differenC
to the church whether good men go
: ern or bad-and, if it does make
D.. difference, it should stand for wha
in it's views, is right.
The church should be aggressiv
It should fight and fight vigorous
: for those principles to- which it su
scribes, just as the early Christia,
fought to establish Christianity.
j. should not fear to soil its hands
lie getting in contact with the und
lg world. 1t should take its place
the foreground and lead the way
s. better things.
in The church militant will arouse {
he interest of fighting men-it will gi
them a mans job, and they VII Ii
their task.
Why should it not be within the lii
es it's of reasonable duty and enterpri