The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-07-21
zeal FOR DANCING
&OU[DBE DIRECTED
INTO CHURCH WORK
YOUNG PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW
WHAT TO DO FOR CHURCH,
DECLARES PREACHER.
ORGANIZATION NECESSARY
TO LIFE OF MODERN CHURCH
Rev. J. 3. Lawrence, State Mission
Secretary, Speaks-Praises Women's
Union-sunset Service Most lmpor
tant Of Day.

churches" said Rev. j. B. Law
renee today, 'who waste their
time in attending card parties and
dances who would work for God with
iShe same zeal and earnestness If they
Flnly knew what to do. The greatest
n iDblem of the church today is to pre-
bare the man and woman for the place
they are best fitted for and to make
them efficient instruments in the
church for the propagation Of the Cos
pei and the making of the church.
More than so per cent of the church
members do nothing but have their
names on the church book. If you
should remove their names, their pres
ence would not be missed. 1t Is the
churchs business and the church's
problem to make workers, efficient
workers of this vast number Of idlers
In the church"
Mr.. Lawrence is State Mission Sec
retary of the Southern Baptist Con-
vention.
MIR. Lawrence spoke on the organiza-
tions of the church. He said that our
forefathers would not tolerate any Or
:ganization whatever the church, but
that today in our complex civilization,
If we do the greatest work we must
have organizations in the church.
<'They ought not to take the place of
preaching by any MEANS" said the
speaker, "but organization is the fun
Glamental thing in making for the sue
nTcess of any undertaking today.
Organization is absolutely essential
for church efficiency in whatever line
of work the Christian is called upon
to do. And most organizations that
count most are those that project
themselves into every boys life, into
every girls life and into every man
and woman's life. We must have an
organization that will fit everybody
boy or girl, man or woman.
"The Sunday school was formerly
looked upon as merely passing move
ment, but we have so thoroughly scien'
tifically systematized our Sunday
schools that today they are the great
est force in the departments of church
work for the redemption of souls"
Perfectly Organized Union.
<'The w. M. U. is one of the most
perfectly organized system in the
world,' the speaker declared. The
head Cffice in Baltimore can start q
= program and in a month it will have
Epread all over the country.
with all these organizations, the
church is failing to do what God wants
)her to do. The church should make
itself felt throughout the whole com
munity of which 1t is part. There
are girls who, If only led and talked
to, would willingly nurse sick people
around the community and so coult
lead every member to some definite
Work in the church. The church mos
felt in any community is the church
which projects itself into the life o
the people"
Rev. DR.. M. E. Dodd, pastor Of the
First Baptist church of Shreveport
La, who is delivering a series of ser
mons to those attending the Baptist
Encampment being held at the Wo
mans College this week preached last
night on the subject Of Fellowship
The speaker chose as his text the
first chapter of the first epistle of Johr
and the first verse of the second chap
ter. John was an old man when hs
sWrots this epistle." said Mr.. Dodd
j~~'He had seen the shams and the rea
professions of faith. He had seer
those who maintained fellowship witt
God and man. Now he writes out o
his own experience. To maintain fel
lowship with God is only possible
{ through Jesus Christ. There is
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