Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-03
MEN NEEDED WHO
WILL STAND 0
RIGHT IN LIFE
DR.. MOORE SAYS IND WANTED IN RE-
LIGION ARE THOSE WHO WILL
CARRY lDEALlSM THRU WAR.
SAYS IF IDEAL is TO BE EFFECTED
IT MUST BE ONE THAT HAS ITS
ROOTS IN RELIGION.

ciois attack Tor the right and good and
higher things, and we need men who will
face these issues conscious OF the help of
their Divine Maker and Ruler. Ii will be
men who will carry our idealism through
the test uf war, and if the ideal n 10 be-
effective ii must he IN ideal that has IT.
root. in religion. That II why the topic
of Men and Religion j. just now vital.
These were the words that summed up the
stirring address made AZ the First Metho-
dist church Monday night by Rev. J. nj.
Moore. secretary If the home missions
board Of the Methodist church.
Rev. Moore spoke 10 an audience of
eighty persons in the Methodist auditorium
at $50 Monday night. Ills style Is force
full and carries conviction. In the use of
irony the speaker excelled. lie has a pc
cnliar ran~tic delivery "a ironIcal pas
sageS that could hardly be made more ef-
fective than il j.. Then, too, he has tho
power to drop suddenly To n conversation
al level and chat Intimately with his audi
ence without losing the a~ccndancy which
hc mas built up through his exalted pas
>ageS-a thing difficult 10 do IN the ex-
IRENE.
Rev. Moore, in an address lasting over
an hour. said, in substances:
1T is OF peculiar interest tonight that
we should be gathered here in the house
Of God on the eve Of a session Of congress
that will doubtless take the grave step Of
declaring war. ! know no place where. in
this hour of national gravity. it j. more
fitting that our citizens should be collected
than in a place where hate i set aside.
1.-THE men who nave carried the world
forward are the men who carried IL tow
ard the Maker ~ the world. The makers
of the worlds history have many times III
hours Of great peril turned in>tinctively
toward the great Guide and Counselor.
Our own President Wilson has many times
in considering matters of grave import 10
you and me. bowed hi hcad and with his
cabinet Officers asked in PRAYER the help
and guidance az the divine mind. IL l.
therefore apparent that the men Of the ma
ton, who will fight the coming war, should
be fired with a spirit Of religious right
eou-ncS~ III the best issue j. To come out
Of this awful struggle.
II 40 not believe we are starting now IN
a career that l. designed 10 swell our self
conceit. Neither - lbs a time for a spec
tacular and bombastic boastfulness. We
are facing a crisis that gives us little on
which to feed our national vanity. We are
nj the beginning of this war impressed and
awCd, H. n nation. with the responsible
ties we are assuming IN entering this
bloody struggle. ID j. best, therefore. that
our men and our women turn to religion
to find the comfort that will make this
awful, yet necessary, thing endnrable.''
Women are the conservative factors III
the worlds life he said, and those women
who wish to take active part ~ the worlds
affairs are simply abnormalities needing
suppression.
III was not by accident that Jesus
Christ was a man." said Rev. Moore. 'IIc
came into the world a. q builder. An ac-
tive principal. 4 constructive agent. and
these are properly III the sphere Of mans
work, not woman'e."
Rev. Moore then said a few words to his
woman bearers. who ~outnumbered the men
in the audience. "Of course do not mean
by this that man H. greater because he
and he alone has and should nave aggre~-
sIve, constructive power. The con~erva-
tive force exerted by women j. equally
valid and necessary. But it l. the men
who should be accountable for the conse-
quence~ Of their acts. | deem IL. there
fore, of the first Importance that the men
should ~ imbucd with true religious con-
yIctlon. The trouble with our religion H.
that most Of the men we have IN the church
are putting the man OF them INTO business,
aud only their weakness and mild amiabil-
ity into their religion. The church needs
men who will throw their manhood without
reserve into the work MI Gods kingdom
in 4 final striking passage Rev. Moore
said: II have little patience with a Chris
tianity that seeks It's expression in infant
things. ! can not bring myself TO embrace
a Christianity that lays stress on begcarly
things, nor that perverted religions ordour
that seeks iu aba-r itself. lu ~ nothing. tp
lie helpless at liz feet. What the world
needs i, a Christianity that expresses it
self in action. by force, To art, To accom-
plish. and 20 win by fighting To those high
or things which are the goal If d Chris
tian life. Let a.. therefore. have men IN
our religion and religion IN thD/life III our
men. Men and Religion these two should
and must be coupled and inSepl,rable.''