Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-10
MAKING GODS KINGDOM
 IN THE WEST. Denver Pastor Spsals of Church Con- ditions in the New Country.

The third of the union Congrega- tional services was held on Sunday morning at the Broadway church with a good attendance and the Rev. Frank L. Moore of Denver, Col, as the preacher. He spoke first of the calam- ity which has befallen the nations and
 of the way in which civilization Is re-
 senting the recent lapse into savagery. The west has found the disarmament of individuals good thing for com- munity Would not nations find it An
 equal benefit?
 His text was St. Luke 1: s3, And of his Kingdom there shall be no end When these words were spoken Rome corner of her empire a little child was
 born. We all realize how helpless a little child is and how long it takes him to grow up. Ills life hangs on a slender thread. It seems impossible that the fate of this kingdom without this child and in the face of such a mighty power. The nations of the world were all striving for power then just as they are today. Assyria- Baby lonia, Persia, Greece and now Rome was in the lead She was a mighty au- tocrat, who ruthlessly slaughtered her enemies. But only to the little child's kingdom was there to be no end.
 In 17SS a little colony of people from Connecticut went west and found-
 ed Marietta, O. Rev. Daniel Burke, their pastor, took these same words as
 home. It was prophecy, but it took
 faith to believe that his kingdom
 would come there in the wilderness.
 It takes faith to believe it even today
 in some parts of the world. But we
 can see that it has been coming in the
 many hearts and souls which have found power and peace and we can
 trace the modern aspects of that king
 dom of love- purity and righteousness
 in mems dealings with each other. It
 has been coming in our own land.
 The speaker then went on to ex- plain why 1t has been so slow in conl-
 ing in some parts of the west, espe-
 cialIy in Colorado. The people who went west were usually poor and had
 no money to build churches. Then, too. a place takes it's cue from its first settlers and many of these first set tiers were goddess people who went fwest to get away from a bad name In fact, many of them changed their
 names after they got there. Such towns ] were not founded in righteousness. The west is big in space more than in
 numbers. They have new conditions there which were unknown to our fa-
 thers. The three biggest of these new problems are irrigation, mining and dry farming. Though land is only SIPS an acre, the water right to go with fl Is $50 to s70 an acre. It is hard for the farmers to get a start Some day 1t will be an immensely rich country but just now it Is bankrupt after the | starting booms. The process of set ting the west is a slow one.
 He described the .dificulties of min- ing in the paradox country, where ra- dium is found. It is equally hard sometimes to make Christians out of the descendants of notorious outlaws The sins of the father are visited upon tn children even to the third and fourth generations, and this is the third gen. eration. One old outlaw had 19 wiv os and his descendants are numerous Then there Is dry-faTTning, an entirely new method, in which the ground is plowed 12 to 1S inches deep Dry farming is a slow and expensive pro- cess. Most of the farmers are pool men and often know nothing abou, | farming of any kind. They are intel iigent and need the gospel which they to do much for. Of course there are rich people in the west. One mar
 worth $209. 900 gave s1 as his yearly contribution to the church. woman called Queen Ann. a big stockholder was prosecuted for stealing calves Al l though it was proved that she took
 them, the jury acquitted her because brought the accusation. had stol ar more than she had. Such people ars not doing or giving much for Christ. 1 kingdom There are people in the wes- 1 whose fathers brought their God witt l them when they went west and whC founded law abiding and righteou. l communities They are not the one. l who founded Hole-in-the-W Wall, Buffalo Waiiew and similarly named eommuni. l ties,