New Britain herald., 1914-04-06
FEDERALISM CURSES
 CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Rev: Mi. Miller PllaChtS EVanQt.
 iCa, SeIm]n at Trinity.

! Wesleyan's Gospel team opened up ! their services at the Methodist church
 yesterday. The four young men, Rev. ] Mr. Miller in charge, are inspiring
 takers and expect to do much good
 during their short stay here. No col ! lections are taken at these services, t Lexcept. ,op next Sunday night when a 4 free wifi offering will be taken for 1 the Wesleyan men. About $1O0 ad-
 tional expenses have been incurred l by these services and the finance com- l mittee will be glad to receive volun- | tary contributions to help defray ! this cost
 I Tomorrow afternoon at o'clock 1 the Standard Bearers will meet with l Mrs. Goodrich, of Grove Hill. l The Morning Sermon. ] Following is an abstract of the sermon:
 s'The curse of the Christian church, l from it's earliest inception, has been l Journalism. The church has ever l been prone to go through meaning l less forms of worship, to bow before l images, to parade Up and down, while l the power of godliness has not been I there. Successive reformations have l been necessary to keep the church | from falling into stagnation. Today l we need Moses to lead us forth 1 from the wilderness of Journalism. 1 "Christianity must not be confused i with .Churchiarity. We are too ready. to consider ourselves good I Christians if we belong to some l church, help support the minister, | and drop around to meeting when we l have nothing else to do.
 F ls.'There are too many sticks in our | churches They come sailing in like i icebergs, making the poor preacher I feel as if he were being churned in 1 an ice cream freezer. Too many church, services resemble funeral l at the North Pole. Men go to church 1! to get their hearts warmed, to gain l new hope courage, strength, to drink into their souls the radiant sunshine I of Gods love. They find themselves ]! in a forest of tall timbers and go \ away chilled to the marrow. I don
 wonder that many of our church con gregations consist mostly of empty | pewS.
 | '.If religion is worth anything, it l ought to come into the life With flood of glory, putting a glad song in
 our life, a smile on our face, gladness
 and strength in our hearts"
 Thus in part spoke Harry Knight Miller, the young evangelist, who IS captain of the Wesleyan gospel team | This team composed of five prom1- nent men from Wesleyan university is conducting a week of meetings in Trinity M E. church. A chorus of fifty voices, backed up by the church
 organ, piano and orchestra, and ad-
 mirably led by Rollin Futile, '15, l makes the musical part of the meet | ings breezy. and inspiring. Stirring
 gospel songs from new song book l are used. MT. Wilson Fisher, said 1 to have the finest voice of any man | in the university, rendered an effec- l tive solo last night and will sing every night.
 l MT. Millers text was What Is That in Thy Hand ?'' Exod. AZ. He said l in part:
 l Every life is storehouse of 1 potential possibilities. Yet for the l most part we live useless, meaning ] less lives, so satisfied with ourselves as We are, that we are blind to our l:selves as we might be. The success ! full life is measured not by wealth 1 and power. The richest men are l often the most unhappy, and poor. ] men have been most successful in 1 leaving the impress of their lives on society. Nero was the most power | full man of his day, yet no one would I call his life a success. Napoleon left i no heritage to society, despite his un- I equalled power and ability, and died l unloved and unmourned on his lonely island prison.
 l Success is service! The successful I life is that which leaves the world l little nobler, cleaner and happier be-
 cause of it's having been lived. The l only wealth you can carry with you i into eternity is the wealth of the i souls you have saved, and the con- l tribution you have made to society. l If you are worth a hundred million I dollars you can't take enough with < you to buy a cup of coffee, a hot
 dog, or a lollypop. Many a man l. counted a success in this life, will stand empty handed, a pauper, before the throne of God. I come to hold I before you the vision of a life of service for God and man.
 I s'What is that in thy hand?" In
 this case it was Moses rod; big
 stick. God can use the dead-wood timber, the. dry, useless sticks, in the Il churches of Am erica to win the world I for Christ in a decade if we will give him half a chance. Here is potential
 power, before me to bring upon New
 Britain a revival which would fill l every church in New Britain to it's I capacity and stir the whole state. ! Oh, for an awakening which would
 take us back to the day of vital re- ligious experience; to the day when
 religion meant something, and
 brought peace, happiness and power into the life.
 l "What is that in thy hand ?' 1t is