The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-07

romance of coal tar, a by-product' of
things come from coal tar. The dis
covery of these useful products re-
Quired much new machinery Men
did not count the cost. The romance
Of the young people; they have come
to be recognized as a valuable asset.
Much of the new church machinery IS
due to this discovery.
New Conditions.
Every pastor and layman has met
these new conditions. The Sunday
school is a great force and its i'm
portance of recent discovery. The
Sunday schools ought to be alongside
of the best secular schools.
Some teachers are very inefficient.
Five hundred thousand more men and
boys are in the Sunday schools in this
country today than three years ago.
These need employment The problem
Of the whole church is to find compe
tent teachers. The methods of Bible
study which obtain in the colleges and
in the Y. NJ c. ~. have appealed to
many young men. These will demand
better teaching in the home schools
and will not remain in them if they
do not find it.
Social service is attracting the at
tention of thoughtful men. Some great
plants are being erected, notably in
Atlanta and New Orleans. One diff
Guilty is to find equipped workers for
these institutional churches. One has
had to be actually closed for want Of
workers. Some churches may hire
deaconesses and find them a curse If
their services keep the churches from
work. Some churches have no men,
or few men, who will lead in prayer
or conduct a prayer meeting. Some
places in the cities are being deserted
nv r 1nf haR hn
pie are not there but because there
are no people in those churches who
know how to deal with the situation.
We do not know how to do work that
is important and insistent.
Another thing we ought to learn
is to cooperate with other Christians
and other Christian organizations.
Men and Religious Movement.
"A great meeting is to be held in a
few days in Nashville to emphasize
and encourage men and boys in under
taking religious work. 1t is not the pur-
pose to destroy UNCONVENTIONAL work.
but young people need training in the
use of church doctrines. The young
people ought to study church history
| and church doctrine. Methodism must
take part in these efforts at Christian
| union, but must lose her characters
tics.
This is possible only if we have a
revival OF the study doctrine and his
tory. Young people are best calcu-
lated to do this work. Older people
are too busy: habits are fixed. The
young people as a class are the leisure
class in southern Methodism. The
problems of amusements are to be met
by putting these young people to
work.
Or. Reid says one trouble of the
Epworth League is that it has never
made the heroic appeal. The young
are sometimes discouraged by the
older people. The unconventionality
of the young people may be said tc
be the heroic element.
I'm a village in Florida a. group OF
young people made the building of g
church possible after the project had
been turned down by the board OF
stewards and Woman's Missionary So
ciety.
Hundreds of young people have
volunteered for missionary, work. The
| social instinct must be recognized
| The question is how large and what
shall the social life be. Social contact
of the classes viii be conducive tc
safety of life and other things.
THE Epworth League offers a pro-
| gram. The league has been doing
| things. Our young men have gone
| into the ministry, numbers Of others
poses to take all the work in Cuba
and expert leaders are not contem-
plated. The work of the league is tt
discover and develop the leader
Rev. J. B. King thanked Brother
| Culbreth for the address and an
| nounced an Epworth conference fol
| this afternoon