The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11

ence. His lecture and pictures on sol diers and sailors were especially good. Student groups in China, Japan and India were shown. One of the most in teresting pictures of local interest was one of a class of men in Marbury, Ala. where nearly every man in the town was enlisted In the Bible class.
 'safn closing. ift ftirress Mrs. made an urgent appeal Tor men to make a. more careful study of the. Bible. and, join tic army or big men who are proud to be teachers and promoters of the Bible.
 Final Union Institute
 Yesterday afternoon at 430 o'clock the grand final union institute was held at the First Methodist church. All of the experts were present and made short talks on the methods of carrying out the Men and Religion work. One of the most interesting of these talks was made by w E.. Bederwolf, who spoke on Evangelism In regard to that partieu- lar line of work AIr. Biederwolf said:
 "The message of evangelism summed up in four minutes. so far as l can do it, is as follows:
 First A stronger emphasis upon the social service side of the Christian pro- gramme in the work of evangelism. So closely allied to each other are the mes sages of the Christian sociologist and that of the evangelist that without the former work of the latter must neces- sarily be somewhat abortive and worth less.
 Second. Put. first things first. Tine grace of God is more potent than the heritage of man. It would have been a good thing for some men if their ances- tors had all been hung. Better not have been born at all than to have lived and in ,a to h., inherited passions and appetltes and ten dencies and proclivities of Goddess an cestry. Environment too is a great word, although some people are using it as d twentieth century apology for devil try, but no one thanks God more than do for the beautiful parks and the san- tarN tenements which have taken the place of some degree of the disease amt sin breeding slums in some of our cities. But we must put first things first, and when a student of sociology comes to mo and tries to make me believe that he can regenerate the individual and rejuvinate the human race by getting the bad blood out of their veins and the swear gas out of their nostrls and dose of ethical cul- ture into their heads. he is thinking a species of sublimated nonsense which healthy minds have long ago relegated to the limbo of exploded fallaey.
 Needs Grace of God
 "A man needs the grace of God more than he does a new grandfather. The in- dividual needs a regenerated heart more than he does q renovated lung. The new birth is not the Adam life worked up; 1t is the Christ life brought down. Ne must be born from above. The nature of a man gets at his first birth is human; me nature he gets at his second birth is di- .riD he is of ri 1a, is of heaven, and by no kind of philosophy by no sort of education or evolution Of civilization can the natural man be con- verted into the spiritual. Ye must De born again.
 Third A great nter-church evangelis- tic meeting for men only every Sunday afternoon. to be addressed by the strong est speaker for men it is possible to se- cure.
 Fourth. A simultaneous campaign of individual evangelism. carried on in every church in the city and surround ing country. This is no David and Goliath affair. We must not search around the camp for champion. The world will never be won to Christ by the lordly evangelist or the stately min ister pricking forth along like some Don. Quixote in searth of conquest but 1t will be won only when the whole church is at it. and at it all the time.
 Fifth. A series of evangelistic meet ings in every church for period of at least two weeks in length, some time during the coming year. conducted by the pastor or by some efficient evan gelsuc helper.
 Country Wide Campaign
 sixth. A great country wide snnul- taneous campaign of evangelism under the direction of the Ministerial associa- Etion with the assistance of the strong est evangelistic help possible to secure. And if the churches of this city and the surrounding communities will give themselves to this programme, together with the suggestions which have come from these other men, there will be -such a lifting up of the religious life of this place that its. loftiest ranges will pierce the skies and the warrior