The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1916-12-21
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A MAN WHO DID THINGS

JESUS CHRIST WAS A MAN WHO DID THINGS
Gentle or Jew, Protestant or Catholic Moslem or
Christian most everybody will agree with you upon this
point even they disagree to his later divinity the
method of his teachings Unless he had been "a Man
Who Did Things would we be revering him nineteen hum
dred years afterward?
Unfortunately, too many of us, who like to think we
Christians feel that in attending church and profess
ing our affection for the Saviour have done about all
that we need d and those who don't do we do are not
worth considering Attending church is splendid habit
and Christian principles cannot be easily attained
ana maintained while associatng with fellow Christians
then there's something wrong with u.s. but that not ALL
Every day we hear of things that make us wonder
whether we really Christian nation or whether the
heather 'have u.s. We shudder with horror when
we read OF band of benighed eannbas who knock the
old folks in the head when they become too feeble to
work. We have much better way, and one which re-
eves our conscience and shows superiority over the
cannlba. We let them starve and freeze to DEATH We
spend hundreds of millions for purposes for useless
officers for pensions to already ovepad and underworked
high officials, but few thousands for helpless old people
would make an awful hole in appropriations and,
why goodness gracious won't the Lord provide for them
if they have faith? Quite likely he WILL in the next world
but how about people who didn't provide for them in
this? Some doubt about standing isn't there?
few days ago drunken mother was in jail; drunk
father away and three helpless children starving and
freezing An Of the poor whose sole duty it is
to see that too much money is not expended gave them
temporary support and great state and of it's great
cities are living in hopes that private institutions homes
will relieve them of the burden.
Great Christian Commonwealth, according to learned
Judges professed followers of Jesus Christ have maintain
ed that states cannot support dependent people, young or
DID, unless they happen to be criminals in which event it
will provide them with comfortable quarters and enough
to eat and besides learning the guest some profitable
trade or profession.
We maintain infantile paralysis guarantees to keep
children from catching disease that existed except
in the minds of crazy people, and yet deny fraction of
the money to protect them from cold and hunger We IL
cense the liquor business order that may get few
dollars revenue, that may have something to employ
police for and also that unwilling to do real work
may enjoy comfort at the expense of the suffering
We profess to believe in Jesus Christ a man who did
things and then sneak around the back way so that
won't have to express Christian belief that might
affect pocketbooks tomorrow when we open up for
business.
The best thing all do Christmas morning is to
take an inventory Of ourselves and then get busy What
we profess won't do any good when we face Cod
what have done will be what counts and we can't get
busy too doing of the things that we had ought
to have done years ago if hadn't been too cowardlv
Shall we work together?
THEODORE G. KITCHIN