Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-04
REV. DR.. NASH ON
FINDING ONES SOUL
Mass Meeting at Polls Theater Filled
Body of House.

Sunday afternoon at o'clock at
Polls theater a mass meeting for meT
was held, marked by q spirit of en-
thusiasm in the audience that nearly
filled the body Of the house.
A mems chorus of forty voices, d.
rected by Charles d. Geere, was seat
ed upon the stage, and opened the
meeting with a song service for which
song sheets with the hymns on them
were provided. Frederick w. Lester
was at the piano.
Following a Scripture select ton, read
by Rev. Z. 5. Worcester of Broadway
CongTeg il4onal church, the anthem,
SEND out Thy Light (Gounod), was
given with fine OPPRESSION anu hal-
mony by the chorus of men. Prayer
was offered by Rev. F. O. Cunningham
of the First Baptist church.
RaL F, w. Coleman of Trinity
Methodist Episcopal church announced
another mass meeting for men next
Sunday afternoon at o'clock at the
Auditorium upon the topic, The Pace
| That Kills" lie also invited all those
interested to attend the third of the
: teacher training course tonight at the
T NJ c. \. under A. Craig Bowdish,
upon "fhe Formation OF Ideals
A collection for the expenses was
( taken by the ushers. the first time
that collection has beer taken dur
/ ing this series of meetings. This WAS
followed by another anthem BY tho
/ chorus. Traveller. Whittier Art Thou
Going tNeyin)
/ Rev. Mr.. Coleman who presided
/ then presented ArchdeGcon J, Eldred
| Brown Of Trinity Episcopal church,
/ TO introduce the speaker of the aft
/ ernoon, Rev. Henry 5, Nash DID,
professor of the New Testament in
1 the Episcopal Theological school at
Cambridge, Mass.
Rev. DR., Nash. who has spoken here
before, was received with ripple Of
applause. His topic was Finding Ones
Soul and he spoke from the text, How
I long go We hmping between the two
| sides: If the Lord be God. follow him.
Physically, the boy and the man
grow by taking dares, he said, and
spiritually the soul would grow by
taking dares, and by taking these
challenges for the seemingly impos-
sible in the spiritual world. we would
find cur own souls. He told with in
spring emphasis of the heroism of
Shaw, the first white man to dare to
lead the black troops in the civil war,
and who died at the head of his black
| troops who led all others in a hope
leSS charge upon i OTl NdkQeT. lleTe
is opportunity, he Indicated, for such
heroic daring IN our present times
/ among Christian men to put the heroic
spirit into present-day Christianity
/ and rescue it from the too convential
attitude into which it has fallen. This
is a dare which any man may take.
God is challenging us in three ways.
First, through our nation We Amer
leans have made 2 majestic conquest
Of this continent commercially since
the war, but now We need TO
ger into our politics and clean
house and make America q name
proud to lock up 10 We must take
this dare.
! Secondly, ne challenges Us through
missions Nothing short Of this wide
world is your parish, is my parish
God is challenging the churches tC
irove that they mean what they say
when they SAY that the earth is the
Lords aud the fullness thereof. This
is q decisive dare and if we Christians
MAY the spiritual polu0on now VIZ
! shall lose eur souls.
The third great dare that God il
giving us is the dare of Christian uni
Iy of which lh.s Men end Religion For
ward movement is the kindergarten
| Il IS leading men TO see that unlesi
VS. Christians Of divers denomination
) aAse4hAs aaa Try 20 sa1a tia work