Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-07-02
lAy[ESs PULLMAN
ABLY ADVOCATED
~. n H. Harrison Discusses q
Practical Subject at the Union
Church Service

4 THO subject at the Union services
o,nday evening was "A Flyless
p,,,mau." The subject was very ably
o,saanted by Mr.. Harrison OF the
r.aorated church. In short talk
:, tho close DR.. Porter of Clark Uni
yersity commended the movement
heartily.
Mr. Harrison said, in part;
4 ~ has been suggested that we
asol with some of our local prob
s ,.ms in our union services this year,
IA have been asked by the COM
m,ttee which has in charge the ar
,.nsements of the services to open
q ,ha DISCUSSION of the fly question. 1t
& i not because of my fitness to dis
euss the question, but merely because
II d vas my turn to take the service.
Nv work is largely that of the snow
uow namely, to open up the way;
Il and next Sunday evening there will
Ia An illustrated lecture by Pro-
lessor Melander at the Christian
church on this same question.
Tbelieve most thoroughly in TAX
INK up such questions in our union
services. 1t Is in line with the Cos
bel OF Jesus, to proclaim release to
the captives, the recovery of sight to
Il the blind, to set at liberty them that
are bruised, to proclaim the accept
able year of the Lord That is a
social work and social work is spir-
itual work. Social service is spiritual
oppression and the mind and soul
grow through expression. To receive
without expression develops some
sort of miser, miser in money, or
ideas, or ideals. Christ and his Cos
pei call for practical expression of
good tidings. We have the call for
an immediate expression relating to
our local problems:
The first thing l want to mention
Is the need for community consci-
ence In regard to community inter
ests. We have many agencies at
work trying to develop the individual
conscience. We need m ore attention
to the development of the commun-
ny conscience. There are so many
& things which tend to dwarf the com
munity conscience in small places.
There is the constant temptation to
oehttle the value of life in the small
town or In the country. We think
does not matter so much what we
40 or think. To become slack in ap-
pearance tends to slackness in
thought, and from thought to action.
we In the small towns are not so
nara pressed in the race of life as
He the men and women in the large
eltes. In the cities there are the two
s'eat extremes, the highly gifted and
oAeFeme poverty. The small places
Aafe not the extremes, but a greater
meaiocrity. And there is the danger
u allowing this mediocrity to retard
our growth, our ideas, and our ideals.
Another hindrance in the petty COM
Munlty Is FACTIONS, which are always
.ent.iing to the one who harbors
Aell' And these divisions are more
saSy IN the small community than in
40 city. Then too all indifference
" community problems, whether
Ivy % good roads or sanitation or
DIVISIONAL obligations or amusements
" the educational problem or beauti-
1as the city, tend to make US small
= instead of larger men and women.
'efy DIT OF gossip, every jealousy
a'Dored' every faction tolerated,
mus 10 put a community in a rut
LAT srows deeper and deeper until
It Is mired.
VI the other hand the interest
"uion We may take in community
S'oOiems, every thought we give to
efing conditions, every attempt to
petter social conditions, better
.uoois' better roads, better streets,
''er lights, better stores, better
'cnes' better amusements, will
Detter men and women, and a
tnat will attract people to the
'ese and to the town. And tonight
are mere in the interest of one of
so community interests which. if
interest ourselves in it, will not
~. u better our city, but will m axe us
.,s 'er men and women, make us
~, 'er Drained, purer visioned, and
M IN higher morals. The question is
~ ol sanitation as it is related to
ny Or perhaps better to say. it
'"e lily question and its bearing
go. heaith. Let me quote some
easements from a circular issued by
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