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 tho Young Woman's
Christian Association. He said in part
on Jesus is Still with Us in tho OPP
portunity OF Service:
The world moves, but It's wheels arc
cruel and often crush the helpless. We
boast Of our progress, but at what
tremendous sacrifice. Tho material
advancement Of our age with its re-
lentless machinery. Its ideals Of gold
and outward success, its reckless dis
regard OF the rights and happiness OF
others, would rapidly turn this earth
into hell, II 1t 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 tho saving element that
Rome had not, the Christianity Of
Christ IL we will but recognize and
heed 1t. And today it speaks to us
through the poor, ignorant and weak
who arc in danger Of being ground to
powder. II was sick and We visited
me. was naked and We clothed mo.
was a stranger and We visited mo,
hungry and ye fed me-" He says to us
III the same spirit today: II was an
ignorant child in the slums and We
gave me light and knowledge; was
boy who thoughtlessly transgressed
the law and ye gave be another
chance; was little girl, toiling IN
the cotton mill and We rescued me; I
was young woman working for a
bare existence in one OF our stores, on
the brink of temptation and We
snatched me from the precipice." Jesus
stands among us saying, "Inasmuch
as we have done 1t to the least Of these,
We have done 1t unto me-" Religion,
according to Jesus is the making OF
human life better in the individual and
in the community II this is so, why
can we not put into that idea of re-
ligion something of tho earnestness
and fervor that went int 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-
hells OF vice and crime, hells Of sordid
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, hum
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. Filing
hell q million years into the future
and people shout themselves hoarse
over its terrors in trying to save souls
from the eternal burnings, hut when
hell breaks loose in Clarksburg, the
same shouting people are as silent as
the grave, as impressive as q tombstone.
The agencies which embody the very
idea of religion as we believe it,-our
charlties-our rescue work-our ju-
vcnlle court-our Young Mems Chris
tian Assoclation-our Young Woman's
Christian Association-all the mis-
sionaires Of the new Gospel-awaken
no enthusiasm, receive languid sup
port.
Every vagary that has ever danced
through the brain OF fanatic has
awakened energy and fervor, but 1t
seems impossible TO put enthusiasm to
common sense. Superstition has its