Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-11

Associate Alliance meetings remind
me of the fable where man was chang
ed into men that they might help each
other. / feel that every one OF these
meetings rebounds to the good of our
cause; for, thereby is friendliness and
interest increased and cooperation
stimulated. We are living in rest
less age, an age of wonderful oppor-
tunities and wonderful responsibilities.
an age when people are aroused to the
possibilities of keeping their fellow
men as never before. When nature Is
harnessed and made to yield as no
one has before known. and human ma
ture, too. is developed and broadened
till one feels himself moral pauper
who does not do something for his
brother man.
Every child has q moral and n spir-
itual nature as we'll as a physical one.
Develop all sides in the busy stress
of life, how little religious instruction
is given the child in the home, see
that he goes 10 Sunday school. Teach
him TO know that the future prosper
ity of the nation depends upon its
citizens, and for the greatest prosper
ity every citizen must be responsible
for whatever he undertakes. So make
him feel personal responsibility that
his class and his Sunday school is the
better, the more successful for his
faithful attendance. Make him feel
that the knowledge of the Bible is es-
sential, that no one is considered we'll
educated who does not know Jewish
history as told in the Old Testament,
who does not know the grand truths
of religion as taught by the great
teacher, Jesus Christ. told in the New
Testament, interpreted by our liberal
faith
If your faith has brought joy to you
in your prosperity. comfort and calm
to you in your sorrow, and peace and
biessedness when the depths of your
souls have been stirred, then let some
one else know this. Tell your enighbor
who is drifting, let your unchurched
friends feel that by your daily living
you are teaching them the firm belief
You have in Unitarians.
Th= ideal of alliance can never be
reached until every Unitarian Church
has its branch; until every Unitarian
woman in the United States and Can
ada is member of some branh; UNI
til every member is a dollar member.
and grandest of all until every men,
Der Is life member. 1t is not required
OF everyone to be or to do something
great; most Of US must content our
selves with taking small parts in the
chorus SO far as possible without dis
cord
Prof. Griggs says that prosperity is
not necessarily progress. Progress is
the development OF the human spirit.
Are We progressing Are we individ-
uals putting aside the petty pin pricks.
the annoyances that must arise? Have
we become broad enough to work with
deep interest for the greater good.
though our policies be not adopted?
Are We wise enough to see that plans
oered may be the successful ones.
though they are not devised by us?
Are you willing and are you inter-
ested enough to avail yourself of your
opportunity for greater denomination
al work? Always remember none goes
his way alone. All that we send into
the loves of others comes back into
our own"
Following Miss Bancroft's paper
communion service by the Rev. Dan
lei NJ. Wilson of Kennebunk was held
at 11.3o, after which the conference
took adjournment until p. NJ.