Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

The conference adjourned at 12.45. BISHOP oUAYLE TO THE INCOMING CLASS.
 New Members Urged to Preach
 christ-PIus and Keep Rules of the
 Church..
 The address of Bishop Quayle to the
 incoming class, W. F. Thomas, V. E.
 Bigler, P. D. Ninnick and Tlywn J. Atkins, the address being the feature | of the morning session, at the close of | the address they were received into | full membership in the conference.
 Bishop Quayle spoke in part, as fol- | lows:
 If you promise not to use tobacco,
 you must not use it. If you do. after |
 promising, then you are liars and liars |
 are not good spiritual chaperons. Now |
 don't think you are holy because | you've quit using tobacco, you will |
 just be ordinarily clean. Don't |
 think you are to conduct an apostolate | against tobacco. We do say that l those who are spiritual guides ought not to be users of tobacco. You are
 not to go around conducting an anti
 tobacco campaign. Reduce your an
 tagonisms to minimum. Some preachers stand up batting at every
 thing in sight. Don't hit at wo- mems hats. They've got pins in them
 and you might get hurt. The women
 will wear the hats. You don't wear
 them - that kind. Don't preach ] 'Grandmother's day, Ex-President's
 day, Tuberculosis day. Preach Christ plus.
 Don't preach doubts. If you've got
 doubts, sit on them. Don't fusillade with your fntelleCtural artillery at ! folks. If youn've got a doubt-don't
 yanl1 it out. Lead it out. You lead a lcrfv1 Fr 41,T
 hand for fear she will escape. But don't yank your doubts.
 Subjective prayer is just a mono ; logue-a man praying and letting 1t drip back on him. You can't preach l unless you believe in the objectivity of prayer-that God is get-at-able. A man who believed subjectively of . prayer quit preaching and went to . teaching Greek. The Greeks didn't be- : lieve in prayer.
 | Are you going on to perfection? Do g you ever expect to be made perfect in [ | this life and are you going on to- | ward it? Those questions do not com Il init you to any psychological theories = signed Holy and under the blood of > Jesus When I get a letter signed : | like this, l get suspicious. Men who ; are Godly don't brag about it. They "The great Christ on the dim hin . tasted death once for every man and n it's only to be talked about on a ! mans knees.
 l. When a baby girl three years old . cuddles her cheek against mothers 1' 1 cheek and says, Mamma, I love you a mother is glad and mingles tears with = her kisses. She loves mother three
 years worth. But the girl of 9, loves
 her mother at 9. that love means more.
 But the girl at college comes home l. and puts her arm around her mother 1T and says, O. you dearest mother, l l. love you So. Mother cries and knows -- that the girl of IS loves mother more ,: than the girl of three or nine and I- when that girl is married and comes ;. home with her own little girl and t, takes her mother in her arms and tells :; her that she loves her. it means more 1 yet. She loves her up-to-date. That's l. perfect love-love your God up-to- " date.
 n, 'Tf the Lord delivered a woman with = money into your handsand you spent it ot You can't spend it better than than Q L.. duke could. Your promise to give
 yourself wholly to this work doesn't m mean that you won't have prosperity IS Get some ground beside that whicf 1t gets on you from time to time. Dvt I. got a little farm. my neighbors call fl w 'Quayle's folly It's beautiful wheI Id a man can furnish jokes to the v- neighbOrhood- That farm makes mt i- free from worry.
 VI If you're married. take out in d. surance. When any man marries ,e women, then that man is under homo u- to provide for her when he's dead a of well as while he's alive. Then your z- relieved from worry and can giv of yoursf to the work.
 Tt, You said you would keep the gen all eral rules of the church-remembe ss to do it. You said you knew the doc
 Urine of our church. I believe tha
 doctrine is the doctrine stripped an ,5 made bare for the race of men t IS Folks go about talking abou ooTT' eugenics, a man being born well whe -, he couldn't have a word to say abou ,Ir it. That don't help to make a ma ~ that God going by would be glad t er' stop and kiss. A man can be bor
 over again.
 If at any time you stop believin nl Methodist doctrine, then be a gentle o; man and quit and go away. The roa or out is fine and if you go out remem F.: Der to be honest and good to you whe o6 I6 you didn't amount to much of any I5 thing.
 n.; When was boy and was license a!1, aa, to eXhort. I was scared and sai sm '.- Why, couldn't exhort a doorknol ne ne and they said. You don't have to- W aS' don't eXhort doorknobs' And the Iie said. Just preach Christ. He's rigl iie' here' and Christ said, Yes, williaI II, here I am.' and he was.
 oa rai" If you change your mind abo our theology don't think that's hal tco on our theology. I am glad or ,Toi ] church doesn't say its The Church: il S@ @ A Church. I suspect a church a-oir tbs around calling itself the only churc Sn,. We are A church.
 on You said you approved of our Di ,o5 | cipline and Policy. If you want to mn a Congregationalist, the door is ope
 But you said you were a Methodi! for You've nothing to do with taIls lIre conn, ttI .tees- SoLiIIlittees oont kno soo I've never lifted a finger to get al
 lplace. and the Methodist church h vas Etaken care of me. We have the mo
 self-respecting way of getting pu tbe pits. We don't candidate as long tee you stay in the work. you'll have an Epulpit and a salary-not big saIa a always, but salary always ea- 'rBe diligent but don't be fussy. Pc
 pie don't get nervous prostrati so- through overwork- The hardest wor c. ed man in our country is the pres
 dent I've noticed that they're
 S. willing to take the job another fo on-,l years, and one man who said he vvou