The Detroit times., 1911-11-04
RELIGION vITAlIlES
OUR EVERYDAY LIFE
Sunday School Is Especially Es-
sential To Men, Says
James Schermerhorn.

i nay CITY. Mich. Nov AID.
dresses on The Liquor traffic and
tho sovereign people" by Rev. G. W.
Morrow, OF Detroit. superintendent OF
the Michigan Anti-Saloon league,
Tho Use OF the Bible in religious
culture" by Or shepherd, sunday
school needs and possibilities in the
upper peninsula by Rev. w NJ
Ward. and talks by other leading
delegates featured this, the third ana
last day OF the nifty first annual con
Nention Of the Michigan SUNDAY
School association
Men and Religion" was the subject
discussed by James Schermerhorn,
OF The Detroit Times, last evening
The Men and Religion Forward
Movement is not a movement OUTSIDE
81 the Church" hc said 1T Is luSt
the establishment ~ a lost ana ionhu
department inside of the church Inc
| church wants 10 lind tho S,oooooo men
/ nd huvs who are outside; ~ wants 10
enersixe those VINO are inside
Movement Is not musical term IN
this connection. although IL Is expected
! TO swell the volume III bass sinRins IN
heaven You might say this rs the re-
| call applied 90 tho hrothers VINO nav
forsaken the church Tor business, Pel-
itics ~ pleasure, leaving the women
| TO keep the lights hurning on the altar,
puiiing the pietN W the family In their
wives names.
We might get along with this ar
| ranRcment IL the men Of the country
were making good job Of govern
mcnt and \ square deal oi business,
hut they are not 80 the women are
COINS into politics and rocalhns the
| hi Nos
This Is not an authorized statemeht
| OF the ohjectives OF the campaign nut
IL is the way interpret IL
Many Christian soldiers rally around
| the flag az Thanksgiving suppcrs or
| brotherhood banqucts only Wherc arc
! they the rest of the timeP I'm business
| In politics i'm fTaternal and clnh IRE
| In automobiles. which are not the oih-
cial vehicles OF the Men and Rcltgion
| Forward Movement one OF our REFORM
! governors decries The Reauutul iSle
az somewhere "a meantnHless No'n.
| ing could he more DEFINITE. II u
modern bthtp SUhuct entirely sur
| rounded ny automobiles.
/ Another reason for SO many children
heing made orphans in the hrlet sn"ye
between church and sunday school u
| tho SUNDAY pAper II keeps fnther
away from the pible class SUNDAY
| noon and then one 81 the children has
10 stag away from the public school
Monday morning 10 gamer w VIZ
Proposition for Fathers.
/ What revelation Il would I've TO the
] fathers ~ they desired not only the
presence hut tho company Of their sons
in the Dihlc school II they exchange
IoSeph's coat ~ many ColoTs Tor the
chromattc comic supplement- and would
rather read about the -katseRianainer
Kids than David and Jonathan and set
aside Ruth and Naomi for Little
Memo" how can they expect the de-
voted Nblc school teacher Co keep the
minds az their child on fixed upon the
unsoarChahle riches of the world with
only ono hour In a week 10 comhat
the home influences or the entire seven
days.
one purpose OF tho Men end Religion
Forward Movement is TO make men
ashamed that they have neglected 80
long the inspiration OF the Scriptures
How foolish they Will feel whom the
splendid emphasis that this campaign
is placing upon Pthlc st1dy and boys
: work has brought them back with
( tcachable, eager minds into trc sunday
| school 10 nnd that they have been
paying cngincCrs ~ efficiency and eN-
ports in psychology and craftsmanship
big fees for giving lessons To their em-
ployes when the tmperishahlc, practical
truths that underlic success are lying
right NJ hand n the prophets. the
/ Psalms and the Proverbs,
lamentably large number % our
1 first citizens know the sunday school
! only through the insirid jokes about It
I IN the funny papcrs just as they know
.
( through the placards adjoining the
walls above their office desks
some Men and Religion.
! Lincoln aud religion---anh the shack
les are struck from the wrists OF mill
4 lions 81 slaves
/ John Il Cough and religion--and the
national curse Of strong drink is as
Satl,D by foeman who was not afraid
Roosevelt and reliRion--aud the bust
| ness world "a awakened 90 the right
1 do al ~
Wilson and rcltgion--and the shame
! Of corporate corruption in New Jersey
| Is erased
| TAFT and religion --- and tho war
| cursed empires are invited 90 join with
us w. a perpetual bond Of peace
| whence came the inspiration for the
prompting TO large and unseltish service
on tho part OF our statesmen From
! the earliest men aud religion forward
movement treated with such splendid
! simplicity and power In Your great and
! sacred text book. teaches OF tho SUN.
| day school OF Michigan
In the lives and words Of these hoiv
and unafrsid men was forewrlttcn the
good that our later statesmen do Yet
| this Is entirely unappreciated by tho
! husy man of affairs ~ these modern
| times who neglccts the literature
| formed Of the pnrtrntous and dramatic
events attending the dawn ~ Christi
anitN
nc Men and Religion Forward Move.
| ment Comprehcnds four divisions OF ac-
itN--eduCatt on, preparation, parttci-
! DntioI and commandments sweeps
! on into the years There are enough
| ations' in these periods to form sal.
walton for the men who arc willing 10
So back TO the h c's ot faith and
! practice
! II - not "A spiurge, a surface excite.
| ment o. n parade IL is a united. o.
ranifer efficiently conducted cam.
patgn Of world conquest for practical
| Christianity
! II embraces i've specialized forms ~
| church activity - boys work bible
| study. social service evangelism mis-
| sions Look az the map ~ the United
! states and YOU will sec, outstanding
/ against tho blue ~ the Great Lakes.
| tho hand 81 Michigan raised tn affir-
1 nation for this new crusade Tho hvo
I angcrs represcnting the diversity 81 e.
| fort are compressed close together 10
| symbolizc the hand in glove concord OF
1 tho denominations and associations
! ioininy in this movement Here is the
| spirit Of church unity.
The Rev J. Percival Huget. pastor
1 Of the First Congregational church.
+ Detroit. also delivered an eloquent
/ and forceflil address on the subject
of men and religion
J