The Greeley tribune., 1912-05-02

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delivered at the Baptist church yes
terday afternoon was entitled Inc
Two Plaques" and was a parallel
of the two great scourges-tuber-
culosis and drunkenness. The leo-
ure of the morning at the Christian
church before large audience was
the same as that given at night al
the Methodist church, at whlch
time almost every seat was crowd
ed with the exception of the rear
gallery, the appreciative audience
listened with intense interest for
more than an hour to the earnest
and logical pleading on the subject,
"The Church and the School,
Mr.. Chain said. in part:
I'VE claim to be the greatest ma
ton in the world. This is due TO
the two great institutions. the
church and the school. Constitu-
tions do not make great nation, II
is these institutions, OF Christianity
and religion. and the Sabbath ana
the home. God planted in this coun-
try the wealth of the world, min
erals, forests and prairies. when
has taken so million years to pre-
pare and kept it for this people un-
til few hundred years ago he sent
Columbus to discover America, sent
Martin Luther to give us an open
Bible and Gutenberg to give it to
all the people. Then people OF five
nations, principally the Latin race,
settled along the Atlantic coast
seeking gold: then came the might
lest ship that ever sailed and land
ed on Plymouth Rock the pilgrim
fathers to give this nation its
Christian character, only 1O4 Purl-
tans. and in few months half OF
them died. Then came period Of
l 40 years, up to the French-Ameri-
can war, they built all the churches,
sent out missionaries, founded all
the newspapers, wrote and publish
ed all the books-all the books
worth reading in a Christian home
have been written by their descend
ants, and they founded the univer-
stiles, colleges and normal schools,
out of 365 of the great colleges and
of America all but two
we're founded by individual Chris
iians or the churches and are the
result of the Puritan influences;
they brought the English language,
and before the end of the twentieth
century all the nations of the world
are going to speak English, China
vii lspeak English within 100 years.
THE French and English war
was a contest between the Anglo
Saxon race and the Latin race for
possession of this continent, if the
latter race had won We would now
be in the same state Of civilization
as Mexico and Latin America. AZ
ter a fight for religious liberty
comes fght for civil liberty. All
civil liberty we have was given by
not craftsmanship. Then
came the question whether we
should be governed as thirteen sep
arate states or by one united CEN
raj government. The slavery ques-
lion was not settled until the
churches were divided. then came
he Civil war, then the question
how shall we be governed and q
was decided to govern our country
as We do our churches, the Presby-
terian church gave US our form of
government. We govern our
churches by the educated Christian
At stated periods We
take the measure of our churches,
the preachers preach, teachers teach
and we get the educated Christian
then every four years
put that conscience in the ballot
box at general conference which
makes it into law. About a hun
dred years ago we had a provision
in our discipline that II Methodist
kept a saloon 1t must be a good,
orderly saloon. They tried 1t four
years and discovered there was no
such thing as a good. orderly ga
loon, then they made the law read
that a Methodist could not keep a
saloon. II our discipline is lived
up to now there Is not saloon
keeper, distiller, brewer, drunkard
drinker nor a whiskey voter in the
Methodist church.
I'VE have the closest union OF