Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-15
representative GUERNSEY GIVES
Wei COME TO METK0DISTS AT THE
EAST maine CONFERENCE. DOVER

Progress has marked each year of that
period.
Results Of Church Effort.
We welcome you as the representatives
of great church that is leading the way
for mankind and with other religious
bodies striving for the betterment of the
human race, the result of which efforts
are reflected among all classes of people
In every walk in life and in the ever in
creasing governmental activities in the
State and in the nation, which Is due In
a large degree to the watchful interest
and constant efforts of the religious So
cieties within our republic.
Individuals are held to a far stricte-
account by the church as to their per-
sonal and business practices than they
were formerly, with the result that indi-
'viduals within and without the church
conduct themselves on a higher plane OF
life. Great business associations have
been convinced of the necessity Of
throwing around their employees safe
guards against temptation and in favor
Of temperance. State governments
throughout the country have adopted
temperance among the people. The Fed
eral Government through legislation
passed by Congress in recent years has
sought TO improve the physical, mental
and moral conditions. Through the great
power it possesses over interstate COM
merce it suppresses commercialized vice.
In those branches Of the public service
such as the army and navy. it promotes
temperance by removing temptation.
Its advanced position is now recognized
by the great European governments
that are engaged in the struggle for ex-
istence. All of these governmental &C
tivities to promote the welfare of man.
kind have been most effectually advanced
and supported by the Christian ministry
Responsibility of the Ministry.
Your responsibility as the teachers o.
mankind in the way to attain the high
est life on earth and hereafter has al
ways been very great but never SO great
as at the present moment when the ap-
plication of the teachings of the Chris
tian religion as recorded in the hing OF
Books is on trial throughout the world as
it never has been since the establish
nent of the Christian religion. Christ
taught on earth more than 1900 years age
the doctrine OF brotherly love, on earth
peace, good will towards men. Today
wholesale murder-callcd warts ram
pant in half the world.
This Nation Peace Center of World.
This conference has met in the geo.
graphical center of the State OF Maine.
1t is also within the nation which is the
chief peace center of the globe today.
ALI other great nations are directly or
indirectly involved in war. Our neigh
bors on the north are engaged in sup
plying men and munitions of war for
the great European struggle. In Mexico
to the south Of US civil war has been
going on for four years destroying the
lives and wrecking the happiness of the
recently stated.-has brought the Mexi-
can nation to its death bed. In the Pa
cific to the west of US ships of war of
the contending nations are preying upon
commerce, while in the Atlantic great
engines of destruction are everywhere in
search of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. except IN
America it almost seems as though man.
kind was engaged in a life and death
struggle.
In these times and in this crisis your
duty to humanity and to your country is
clear. You are moulders of public