The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-05-29
BY the Rev. Dr.. Mitchell, Rector
of Christ Church, in
His Sermon.

The Rev. Charles B. Mitchell, rector
of Christ Episcopal church, in his SER
mon Sunday morning emphasized the
usefulness OF the Young woman's
Christian Association. He said In part
on Jesus is Still with Us in the op-
portunity of Service:
The world moves, but Its wheels are
cruel and often crush the helpless. We
boast of our progress. but at what
tremendous sacrifice. The material
advancement of our age with its re-
lentloss machinery. It's ideals Of gold
and outward success, It's reckless dis
regard OF the rights and happiness Of
others, would rapidly turn this earth
into hell, II It were not for the spirit
Of Jesus Christ that still tempers the
strife.
We have been rushing towards the
same preciplce over which Rome fell,
but we have the saving element that
Rome had not, the Christianity OF
Christ II we will but recognize and
heed It, And today 1t speaks to US
through the poor. ignorant and weak,
who nre in danger OF being ground to
powder. Il was sick and We visited
me. I was naked and We clothed me.
was n stranger and We visited me,
hungry and ye fed me-" He says to us
III the same spirit today: II was an
ignorant child in tho Sums and we
gave me light and knowledge; was
a boy who thoughtlessly transgressed
the law and We gave be another
chance; was a little girl, toiling in
the cotton mill and re rescued me;
vas young woman working for a
bare existence in one Of our stores, on
the brink OF temptation and ye
snatched me from the precipice." Jesus
stands among us saying, "Inasmuch
as We have done It to the least OF these,
ye have done It unto me-" Religion,
according to Jesus Is tho making Of
human life better in the individual and
in tho community. II this ia so, why
can we not put into that idea OF re-
ligIon something OF the earnestness
and fervor that went into the old idea,
and that still goes with it7 What agony
OF spirit. what fanaticism even. went
into the appeal to rescue souls from
the raging hell beyond these scenes
ftime' You and may not believe in
an acual hell OF fire. but we do believe
we know that all about us are hells-
bells OF vice and crime. bells Of sordld
poverty and grinding toll. bells OF sod
den ignorance and sunless misery, not
imaginary but real We know that into
these actually fall. day by day, hun
dreds OF youth, even children, and yet
We arc not stirred TO action. We do
not cry out TO save the lives OF men
and women and children, here and
now from the consuming flames. Fling
hell million years into the future
and people shout themselves hoarse
over its terrors in trying to save souls
from the eternal burnings, but when
hell breaks loose in Clarksburg, the
same shouting people are as silent as
the grave. as impressive as a tombstone.
Tho agencies which embody the very
idea Of religion as We believe it-our
charities-our rescue work-our ju-
venile court-our Young Mems Chris
tian Association-our Young Woman's
Christian AssocIation-all the mis-
sionaires Of the new Gospel-awaken
no enthusiasm, receive languld sup
port
Every vagary that has ever danced
through the brain Of fanatic has
awakened energy and fervor, but It
seems impossible TO. put enthusiasm to
common sense. Superstition has its