The Detroit times., 1912-03-04
CROWD PACKS OPERA HOUSE
TO HEAR DEAN MARQUIS
Speaker Gives Strong Address in
Opening Second Weeks
Lenten Services
An audience that iilIed the Detroit

An audience that flled the Detroit
opera house, with many standing,
marked the opening of the second
week OF the INSTRUMENTATION
MONDAY Lenten services, Monday,
when Dean Samuel S., Marquis, OF
St. Paul's cathedral, was the speak
err Bishop Charles ID. Williams pre-
sided. and II was his voice that led
in the congregational singips, With
rigor and heartiness that carried the
waves OF sound 10 all parts or the
fheater. The Rev. James +. Free
man, of Minneapolis, will reach De-
troit In time for the service Tuesday
noon, and will be the daily speaker
throughout the week, including sat
urday.
Instead OF speaking from the
words What shall do TO be saved!
j shall use the words What shall
do TO be lost?'" said Dean Marquis
in beginning a talk that held the
closest attention OF the big audience
from first TO last word. ut sometimes
helps one to do the right thing by
knowing the wrong thing. A man
TO avoid being i'll, learns how TO Keep
well. II a mariner does not know
how TO steer from the rocks by COM
pass, then the lighthouse on the
rocks must be his guide. We must
know what not to do in order to do
that which we should"
Dean Marquis took the parallels OF
the lost sheep, the lost coin and the
prodigal SON. as means of illustrating
his topic.
In all herds of sheep there is al.
ways one that is ever getting lost" he
said. 1T may be the call OF the wild.
the desire TO throw of the yoke OF
going along with the rest or belief
that he knows more than his fellows
or the shepherd. 1t is so with men
A man may ruin himself by becoming
q moral and spiritual spendthrift. The
lost sheep among men has yielded TO
his baser instincts, and his only saliva
ton lies in listening to the prompt
ings OF his better nature.
None OF us has ever paid for our
own education. We are educated at
the expense OF society. We may
have been made what we are through
the sacrifice OF our parents or of 9TH
ers who have given of themselves
that We might be turned out the fin-
ished product as the coin Is made
from the mineral in Gods earth. But,
unless we use our lives by putting our
gifts into circulation we are as surely
lost as the coin. The man or woman
who lives alone in this world Is a lost
coin. He or she may never have
broken a commandment, never done a
dishonest or bestial thing, but in
keeping themselves out of circulation
they are among the lost God means
that We shall use our lives in His SER
vice, In service to the church and to
society.
One of the easiest ways to get lost
lis not to know where you are going.
The prodigal son had no idea where
he was going beyond that he wanted
to travel, to see new countries and
peoples, to pick up chance acquaint-'
ances, In short to live out his life free
from parental restraint, to be what he
thought was free. This kind OF free
dom IS the worst kind Of slavery. We
all know people who boast Of freedom
whom we know to be shirkers OF re-
sponsibilities, lost travellers. Moody
once said, "A man is what he Is in the
dark. 1t is not what you have that
makes you what you are. You may be
a bank president or a street sweeper,
a social parsonage or an outcast, but
none OF these is any indication of
what you really are In your soul.
Man can find himself only when he
sees himself as he really is. II you
are lost 1t is because you have re-
sponded to the lowest in you. You
can be saved by responding to the
highest, acknowledging that your soul
was made for God, and your mind
and body for His service"
The services for the current week
will be under the direction of the Epis-
copalians.