The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-10

The special preacher at Grace
Episcopal church, Friday, March 10,
will be the Rev. Howard w. Diller
of Pottstown. An especially good
list of Lenten preachers has been
tsecured and the public is generally
invited. Services Sunday, March 12,
1890 a. m. and 1880 p. m; Sun
day school at IL NJ.
The Democrats of Wayne county
| are taking a great deal of credit to
themselves for the part they played
in the meeting at Harrisburg last
week of the State Committee, when
reorganization was effected by the
vote of County Chairman Chas. A.
McCarty, Esq, since Wayne is the
last county on the list.
Under orders from Washington,
all postoflices of the country are
now required, for a time, to count
every piece of mail passing through
the office, and classify the same,
weighing and making a record of
the weight of each class of mail.
This extra work causes considerable
delay in delivering the mail
Governor Tener has put the stamp
of his approval on the idea of estab-
fishing a hospital at Farview for the
care of the criminal tubercular of
the state as proposed by Senator
| Walter McNichols at Harrisburg
Tuesday. Recommendation provid-
ing that committee composed of
Dr. Dixon, head of the State Health
~ ho
tern and Western penitentiaries
visit Farview and select a site have
! been made. 1t is said that at pres
ent there are several hundred prison
ers suffering from tuberculosis in
| the two penitentiaries. Farview
would be an ideal locality for such
an institution and the foresight of
Senator McNichols in introducing
such resolution is to be commend
ed.
Rev. Zacherias A. Jones, D. D.,
Rock Hill, South Carolina, educa-
tional secretary of the Friendship
Normal and Industrial College, is
spending several days in town.
The final humber of the High
School lecture course will be given
in the High School Auditorium, next
| Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, when
Lincoln Mcconnell, Atlanta, Ga,
will speak.
The Rev. H. w. Diller, Pottsville,
will preach at Grace P. e. church,
Friday night at 1880 o'clock
P. H. Durkin, proprietor of the
Coyne House, Scranton, William
Webster, Scranton, j. F. Mulherin,
New York City, were the guests
Commercial hotel.
Rev. A. l.. Whitaker attended
meeting Monday in South Bethle-
hem, of the diocesan missionary
committee composed of six clergy
men and six laymen, of which he is
a member.
when 1 love tnee not, chaos is
come again" DR.. Charles Roads,
pastor of Cumberland Street Metho-
dist Episcopal church, Philadelphia,
says that chaos has come again-as
far as Protestanism is concerned
especially the Methodist section of it.
He walls, like modern Jeremias:
Our Church has showed a gain of
less than one per cent. in a year.
There is an average of one convert to
each church and pastor.
Only one-third of the children of
the land are in the Sunday schools.
One-third of them are converted. OF
those converted, only one-third are
trained to accomplish anything for
the Church.
The poor, distraught mourner is so
engrossed with his tribulations that
he cannot see that he uses language
that indicates the cause while he
rails against the effect:
The individual liberty which Luth-
er and the old reformers won for
mankind has finally thrown Protes-
tantism into chaos. Individual liber-
ty has degenerated to such an extent
that preachers and people are con-
cerned chiefly with the individual in
depreciation of the Scripture rather
than the upbuilding of the Church.
The local Church to-day is a mob,
and not an army Like mob, they
know how to break each others
heads. There is no great Christian
army fighting for Christ, because
there is no army spirit.
Chaos has come again for his
Church, and logically DR.. Roads
ought to get away from her, for evil
IDENTIFY he loves her no longer.