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1s~ EST and see that the Lord is
W goodr' is the psalmist's challenge.
That is fair A merchant can make no
greater inducement to a purchaser than
a free trial of the goods. common
method of advertising is by the distri-
button of free samples. The Scriptures
boldly affirm that the surest way to know
the goodness of God is TO try Him and
see. Argument is only vanity; put God
to the test The answer of the centuries
to this is that they who greatly trust
Him find him greatly true"
X x x =
Society draws many horizontal lines.
Jesus drew none, and only one vertical
line. He knew no classes except the good
and the bad. the sheep and the goats, the
saved and the unsaved. This idea has
been strikingly put in some verses by
John Randolph Stidman:
After all, and after all.
Since ever the world began
Just two have lived, and two have died
In lowly men. in lordly pride.
The rogue and the honest man.
After all, and after all
The classes are but two,
And both rich and both poor.
And both still know they knew before.
The things that they ought to do.
After all, and after all,
Escape Ii never can;
Only the choice Of one have VIC,
And you must be and ! must be
rogue or an honest man.
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VI they give movies in the biz
~ parish hall of ST Jude and
the Nativity. at 18th and Mount Ver-
non streets, Philadelphia.
And more than $50 children last
Wednesday night dropped their pen
MES at the door and passed in to an
hours entertainment, such as they
could obtain nowhere else in the city.
Right from the tenderloin. directly to
the south, and from the commercial
and residential sections to the north
two streams of youngsters poured into
the church. children of every size and
degree of cultivation, representing al
most every nationality.
Ushers at the door. assisted by a
troop Of Boy Scouts. sifted out the
youngest movie enthusiasts and placed
them in the first few rows. The re-
mainder of the crowd took seats as
they chose and listened with attention
to the piano selections which preceded
the show.
Finally the words of america" were
thrown on the screen and all. rising
sang the hymn. Let us pray fol-
lowed, and after the Lords prayer in
unison. led by the Rev Arthur Jones, a
vivid. active western drama of love
and the triumph of right was flashed or
the screen.
The youngsters laughed. talked and
played. 1t was a youngsters time. They
were conscious of the restrictions OF nc
| rules but the golden rule and nc
whistline." But most of the time their
eyes were glued to the screen. over
| which the golden pipes OF the chapel
organ cleaned
1T is good. clean, stimulating
amusement said a man who had tray
| eled far to See the last show. "1t Is
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Great 4roblems Confront
Cburrbes, Sup Baptists

- EV. PETER c. WRIGHT. pastor
m of Gethsemane Baptist Church. Is
the Philadelphia member Of the
general committee Of the northern Bap-
fist convention. which has issued an in
teresting appeal to Baptists. Although
1t Is entitled The Job of the Northern
Baptists In America" the appeal might
be aptly applied to churches in general
1t contains much information which
will interest church and social workers
1t follows In part:
The problem of American destiny is a
momentous thing. Faith and patriotism
bid us be optimistic, yet reason and his
tory warn us that our future is a con-
tlngency and not a certainty; that the
forces at play in the life of America
hold the potentiality of disaster as truly
as of triumph. So evenly are they bal
anced that the lethargy or the alertness
OF some single great denomination like
our own may be the pivoting element
in our national destiny. Much of the
problem is common to all American
Christianity Some of 1t has special
urgency for our denomination.
Another factor with a big coeficient
is the growing social unrest. There ia
a rising Impotence with the spiritual
message OF Christianity on the part of
the masses. The Haunting of wealth
and the census-showing that nine-tenths
of l per cent of the population hold
7O.5 per cent Of the wealth. while "a. 4
per cent Of the population have but -
per cent Of the wealth, are like sparks
in a powder magazine. Christianity has
never depended on felicitous social CON
ditions. 1t would lose it's highest
potency in transferring its empha sis
the responsibility Of our prosperous
American Christianity in democracv
cannot at all be measured by that ~
early Christian under an autocrat tic
Caesar and with their political and socia
insignihcance. We must stand unmis.
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6ftbSemane abbot Starts
on @ffirial Ti8it to Guropf
ut. Keo. q. m @brecbt @oing to Kome
tor prlbate auoience 0aitb pope ano
Dtber gmportant Business.

~HE RT. REV EDMUND M.
III OBRECHT. abbot of the monas-
~ terry of Gethsemane, KY, who has
spent some time at the Catholic Univer-
sity at Brookland. sailed Wednesday for
an official trip to Europe of several
months.
Abbot Obrecht first will attend a meet
ing Of the Grand Chapter Of the Trappist
Order to be held at Citeaux in a few
weeks. and, after visiting his sister and
other relatives in Alsace-Lorraine, will go
to Rome for private audience with Pope
Plus X as well as official conferences
with the sacred congregation OF the prop
uganda and the general and other officers
of his order. He expects to return home
in the late fall.
On account of his knowledge Of mis-
sionary work, missionary lands and the
languages of heather countries Abbot
Obrecht was chosen about year ago by
Pope Plus x and the propaganda to make
visitation as papal delegate of the mis-
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takably for social justice and for the
Characterization of industry.
And still another complicating factor
Religion must reckon not alone with the
natural inclinations of the Individual to
evil, but a sinister by-product of civili-
cation Is the tendency to trade upon the
temptations of humanity. 1t is found
that huge profit may be gained from
the exploitation of human frailty, since
men will pay extravagantly to be ruined
if at the beginning the process be made
attractive by an appeal to natural but
readily perverted instincts. And so sin
becomes commercialiZed. Drunkenness
gambling and the social evil represent
not merely individual and sporadic
lapses from virtue, but are taught and
stimulated by powerful business organi-
cations The natural love of excitement
gayety, companionship beauty and music
IS craftily utilized till the victim is en-
shared, when illusions are no longer
needed Much of our literature. also in
it's eagerness for some novel and lucra-
tive sensation. becomes party to the
breaking down OF family ideals and per-
sonal virtue. Religions fight is that of
male principle against rudy vice: Of
nuiet truth against noisy sensation. Con-
science. promising no profits but rather
expense, must compete with the clamor-
Gus lust of the flesh coined into gold.
But if the neutralizing and opposing
forces are formidable those of American
Christianity are showing new agrees
siveness and resourcefulness. Isolated
effort is replaced by cooperation. All
danon,,na atoms are contributing of their
hast wisdom and experience to the COM
mon task of making our country Gods
country. In great interdenominationaf
councils plans are laid. Rs s. aa,da
eether and plan for the large interests
Of American Christianity and not merely
for the rival interests of their denomina-
ton. No true denominational interest is
found thereby to snffe hs.. tsn Ms aHa,s
ists - the devil beats them both and
=, ,<,,.o. tho CITY -
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will be held in SYMPHONY and Horfi-
cultural halls.
Archbishops Blenk of New Orleans.
Quigley of Chicago. Prendergast of
Philadelphia. Rruchesi of Montreal Nc
Neil of Toronto Messner of Milwaukee
and Gilow of Oaxaca, Mexico. with
forty bishops and host of other clergy.
have promised to attend and preach or
speak.
The Canadian and Mexican delegates
are especially designated to represent
Catholic hierarchies in their countries.
chuSettS Will have sermons on mission
AIRY subjects the congress Sunday.
Mgr. Tiberghien, canon of the Church
of st. John of the Lateran. comes from
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Objects to plan
for "@ffirial Dean"
Bisbop Cutie 5aps Gpisropal Gburtb
@eneral leaofr to Be Resinent in
0lasbington 5boulo Aot Be Solicited
bp Denomination M Mouln LEAH 60
marn monarrbisn, ]He Abotps. 1nsteao
of Dft1ofracp.

plan would he put through. and that
few years hence an official head of the
Episcopal Church might be resident In
Washington. The opposition now put
forth by Bishop futile may defeat IL. 40
its promoters admit.
II seems to be found absolutely neces-
sary that religious bodies have executives
The National Council OF Congregational
lists has proposed, through a committee,
the election of q secretary, who shall do
many of the things proposed to be done
by presiding bishop in the Episcopal
Church. The Presbyterians began by put
ting many duties upon their moderator ot
the year. making him in effect an exec
utive for the whole term.
Finding even that not enough, they Gre
ated few years ago a commission. whie n
amounts to their general assembly In al
most continuous session.
While the Episcopal Church Is reaching
out toward more democracy. the inde-
pendent systems, especially the Baptist
and Congregational, are seeking more
centralized authority. Loud protests
against monarchical tendencies, such as
the one just issued by Bishop futile. II IL
declared, are heard in many directions.
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Dr. ano Mrs. 1Qallafs
Kaofliffe Returning

~ E.N. DIR. WALLACE RADCLIFFE.
H< pastor of the New York Avenue
Nv Presbyterian Church. and MIS-
Radcliffe have sailed for New YORK,
they having taken passage on the
Oceanic from Southampton, England,
Wednesday.
The steamship is due to arrive in
New York Thursday. and it is expected
that DR.. and Mrs. Radcliffe Will go
directly to Philadelphia. After a day
stay there they will come to Washins-
ton Saturday.
DIR. Radcliffe will preach in New
York Avenue Church the following
Sunday, according to the schedule OF
services, which has been in charge OF
Mr. Harvey 5. Irwin, secretary OF the
board of elders of the church.
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st. anDrem lational
Contention October |

THE committee appointed at the re-
W cent local assembly of the Broth
erhood of st. Andrew, held in All Saints
Church, Chevy Chase, is making spe-
cial effort to have a large attendance
of the brotherhood here to attend the
national convention of the organization
TO be held in New York October l.
In furtherance of the effort the local
leaders hope that the various chapters
will select delegates bfore the next
local assembly meeting, which Is to be
held in Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
Anacostia, September Is.
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- AMES of men likely to be honor
~ ed by Congregationalists to their
~ national councils moderatorship
are talked of freely just now.
They are President Henry Churchill
King o. Oberlin College former Mayor
u. Percy Jones of Minneapolis and Rev.
DR. Charles S. Mills of Montclair. n. ].
These names are brought forward in
connection with the moderatorship OF
the National Council, which meets at
Kansas City IN October.
Indications seem to point to President
King as i'm the lead although it is adj
mitted that former Mayor Jones is
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Congregationalists CONSIDERING geaoers for the
Aloberatorsbip Of Tbeir Ratonal Council
pesibent King 0berln College SIS Kegaoeo geaninQ-
5elerton to Ne lane at Trienuial 4leeng at kansas
Citp 1lo., in Ortober

ordinary secretaries. because it is pro-
posed greatly to enlarge the powers. and
among other duties make the secretarv
chairman of a missions commission
which it is proposed to create. and
therefore head OF the apportionmeut
denomination.
This National Council now meets once
m three Years. but it is said to be prob
able that 1T will decide hereafter to meet
every two years 1t may be granted
much larger oversight Of Congrega-
tlonal affairs, especially of benevolent
affairs. than it has ever assumed For
the important place of secretary Rev
DR.. Herring seems at this distance to
have the lead
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strong because he is representative
layman of the northwest. Represent
ative Dingley of tariff bill fame was
moderator of the National Council in
his day.
Four names are mentioned in connec-
ton with the secretaryship of the same
council. These are Rev. DIR. w. H. Day,
pastor of the big First Church of Los
Angeles; Rev. DR.. William E. Barton of
Chicago, now active in Congregational
journa ism; Rev. DR.. Edward Lincoln
SIN tn. lately of Seattle, but now with
the American board, and Rev. DR.
Hubert c. Herring of the Home Mission
airy Society.
The office is important far beyond
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Majestic Manifestations.

! We must not only seek to see His glory.
as did Moses, but We must make the
preparation in our life that will tit US to
behold the greatness. grandeur and glory
| of the living God. Israel removed all the
garments that had been soiled and stained
! by travel and saw that their persons Were
completely cleansed so that there shouIr
be nothing about them that would denie
them, although only a few OF their num-
Der were invited TO go up into the noun
tain into His presence. He has invltea
us to draw near in the name of our
blessed Lord and behold His glory.
After three days preparation or the peo-
pie the peaks of the mountain We're COW
| cred with the clouds through which the
/ lightnings quivered Vividiy ana unh.s sI my.
tently, as if the vast height were afiame;
terrible thunders leaped from crag to
crag. and reverberated in multiplied
echoes like the sound of mighty truin-
pets announcing the approach OF GOO.
The people. filled with fear and awe. trenl-
, hled at the summons to meet God. VINO
descended upon the mountain In hre-
whose intensity and extent caused the
whole mountain to smoke and tremble at
the manifestation of Jehovah's power.
The appearance of God served a double
purpose, for the majestic manifestations
impressed upon "the people the reality OF
the Divine existence. the power and mai
esty of God, and His nearness and close
relation to themselves" and also sanctioh-
ed the law, or series of laws. Moses was
commissioned to impose on them as az
absolute obligation Without such rev.
elation OF Jehovah the Hebrews would
have refused to accept the laws as divine
Looking upon them as only human legis-
lation they would have obeyed them only.
when it suited their convenience. Z
Back of the message of SINAI is tne-.
same grace that later reveals itself IN
the cross Of Calvary, teaching us IN al
most the same language the purpose OF
God to save men. The methods OF lhe.
law differed from those of the gospel
but the principle was the same. as We;
will see in our coming studies how Je-..
hoyah was seeking to reveal TO men thelr.i
weakness that they might come to depend
for salvation absolutely upon the resource;
of their God. He is still summoning men
by the experiences OF life 10 put their.
trust in Him and be saved. :.
The golden text gathers up the centraly
thought of the lesson and makes appear,
of grace that is seen in both the ex-~
periences of Sinai and in the crucinxion-
of Calvary. Morgan correctly puts IT,
when he says of the text that The.
writer has been contrasting the mounts..
wherein the law was given with Mount
Zion the new gathering place OF men IN.
the Christian economy. and insisting upon j
the fact common to each thar these,
mountains were centers from which Coo.
uttered His voice" until at last he made
the appeal as we have 1t In the text.
.f,et us have grace whereby We maysi
offer service well pleasing to God with.
reverence and awe" The only service.
that we can offer to our God Is one or
grace which was the inspiration or the.
law and of obedience that summons use
to keep the covenant and communicating
of our GOD.
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~ HE Federal Council of Churches of
vi Christian America estimates that
2o,H0 churches throughout the
country Will observe Labor Sunday this
year. tomorrow is the date. bout 30
Wo Kept it last year. and this year the
requests of ministers and labor leaders
for programs have been 1000 to 5000 in
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~ He Roman Catholic Missionary
O Congress. the second ever held,
meets i'm Boston in October, and
II has inst issued an appeal to Catholic
laymen to attend and learn at first hands
what the Catholic Church is doing. what
are its needs and how its own laymen
NAV help Pope Plus y has designated
Archbishop Romano, papal delegate to
this country. to represent him at the con-
sress. and he will sing pontIhcal nigh
mass in Holy cross cathedral Sunday
morning, October Il? Cardinal O'Connell
will preach the sermon. Sessions of .te
congress, covering the next three days.
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~I SHOP FUTILE of Missouri. the
2DA present presiding bishop of the
- Episcopal Church, and such he
cause he was oldest in date of consecra-
ton, has come out with a statement
stoutly opposing the project to elect some
young man to be official head of the Epis-
copal Church, either bishop already, or
some clergy to be consecrated bishop In
order that he may serve as head.
There is no personal equation In his op-
position, since the, scheme is not to take
effect during Bishop Tuttle's lifetime. He
opposes the plan on the grounds OF eN-
pense and friction from other bishops, but
chiefly the certainty. in his mind, that
wears hence some presiding bishop sc
elected will be ambitious and Will carry
the office from an executive to an ad-
ministrative or even legislative one. de
protests against what he calls tendency
toward monarchism in a day when the
church ought to head toward democracy
It had been thought certain that the
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leahfs for China.

hnISS JUANIATA p. ROHRBACk,
J|t who is to become secretary to Rev.
f. d. Gamewell of the board of foreign
missions of the NJ. Z. Church and who
Will leave shortly for Shanghai. China.
will speak at a farewell service in Foun-
dry Methodist Episcopal Church tomor-
row evening at ! o'clock. A number OF
other workers in Foundry Church organi-
cations will tell of her worth to the work
Miss Rohrback will sail for China Sep
TENDER IL.
X
After vacation spent at Bethany
Beach. Del, Rev Earle Wiley, pastor OF
the Vermont Avenue Christian Church
has returned to Washington and will oc.
cupy his pulpit tomorrow at both the
morning and evening services.
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Brofession anb posses
sion.

~ ROFESSION and possession are not
- always the same; but we may know
that one is possessed of Christianity
when We read the peace of Christ on his
face and see his hands and feet busy on
Christlike errands. What says James:
What doth it profit my brethren. If a
man say he hath faith. but have not
works? Can that faith save him?
Yea a man will say thou hast faith, and
I have works: show me thy faith apart
from thy works. and by my works will
show thee my faith
The average man never reads treatlses
on religion, except those written in what
Paul called living epistles.
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Mr. Burkett to Preafb
in Temple Cburcb

- Ey. EVERETT $. BCRKETT, who
N formerly resided in Washington
and who graduated from the McMinn-
willie. Ore. Baptist College in June. is
TO occupy the pulpit of Temple Baptist
Church tomorrow.
In September the clergyman plans to
attend the Baptist Theological Semi
nary at Newton Center Mass.
The pulpit of the Second Baptist
church is TO be filled tomorrow by
Rev. Amos Clary of Cambridge. Md.
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20 Begin 0M ork
5eptfmbrr Ia

- Ev. DR.. LUCIUS c. CLARK. who
~ comes from Mason City, Iowa. to
the pastorate of Hamline NJ. E. Church.
is expected in Washington in time to be-
gin his pastoral work here September IA.
X X
The political unrest throughout the
world, the numerous earthquakes and con-
ditions in the social, commercial and re-
ligious worlds, all strengthen the belief
that Christ is about to return to earth.
according to E. F. Albertsworth, presi-
dent of the Washington Society of Sew
enth-day Adventist Young People. In a
lecture in the Memorial Adventist Church
at 18th and NJ streets northwest, last
evening.
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ings of nature constitute a system Of re-
ltgion.
We may properly speak of natural
theology. Nature proclaims the existence
of God, and displays some Of his at
tributes, but 1t does not tell Of mans
fall into an estate Of sin and misery. nor
anything concerning the immortality OF
the soul, or the resurrection of the body
or Of a future state Of reward and pun
ishment A system which excludes these
doctrines cannot be said to be religious.
II we know nothing about the true ma
ture of sin, and the remedy for its con-
sequences, we can know nothing about
religion. Nature leaves us in ignorance
and gives no ray of light as to the fu-
ture. But II we accept as fact that
God is not only the creator OF the uni
verse, but the author of the Holy Scrip
lures, in which His mind and will are
revealed. we have basis for true religion,
and know in what it consists.
In the light Of revealed religion we
have no uncertainty about PRAYER being
an essential to missionary work and to
every kind Of Christian endeavor.
x* X
An Appointed Means.
Prayer as correctly defined is 1.-The Of
fering up of our desires unto God. Tor
things agreeable to His WILL In the name
or through the mediation of His Son, by
the help of the Holy Spirit. with con-
fession of our sins, and a thankful
acknowledgment of His mercies."
Prayer is an essential part Of re-
ligion, because by 1t acknowledgment is
made of the omnipotence of God and our
dependence upon Him. 1t is the ap-
pointed means of communication be-
tween the Creator and creature.
Il will be inquired off," says God. No
other way is revealed by which temporal
and spiritual blessings can be attained.
We do not know the reason on which
this privilege and duty rests. The
only that God hath appointed it and en-;
joined it as essential in the life and
experience Of His people-that it is a
spiritual exercise in harmony ar o1sred with tn
faith for things agreeable to His will,
with confession of sin and Thanksgiving
for mercies bestowed.
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