Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-27

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calm. sturdy perception to discover paths
| that are to lead them to yet greater ser
vice to humanity. They have responded
! to every call made upon them and 1t VIII
not be until we can measure their etfl-
cheney in the full light of what they have
meant in the final reckoning with our
| enemies that the work can be well and
truly appraised.
| 1 am sure you will appreciate your
place and your influence in the life OF
today. Yesterday your opportunities. were
limited but with little. at your command
you saved to humanity ideals, you kept
alive the glory of service. When the old
chivalry was dead and noble birth could
not longer inspire men. you taught them
| larger, nobler conception that power i'm
! posed obligations. You women of the
church have in a thousand ways '-ept the
white banner with its blood red cross
floating over a thousand little churches.
You have thought and planned and or
| gained, you have worked and served
sewed and sold, and resorted to every
revice to secure the money that the little
| Sunday school and mission for the needy
might not die out. Today the wealth
of the gold laden hills, the gold of the
wheat fields, the science of the ages, the
literature and learning of the centuries,
the social and political influence Of the
years are at your disposal. Take them all
and go forth as of old to make your hus-
bands and sons ctrong. brave and patient
makers of states. creators of noble race
of men. Take them all and go forth as Of
| old to dig wells for the thirsty, to buffl
houses for the shelterless, to heal the
sick and teach the ignorant and save the
lost. Take them all and go forth in this
new day to make disease and crime, ana
ignorapce and sin impossible.
But yesterday, and the story came from
the line of battle, where dying French
Catholic and dying Hebrew lay upon
the field of battle The Jewish boy was
shot in the side, and the Red Cross nurse
tells us that she found him crawling to
help the young Roman Catholic. The SOY
der was too weak to pull the little cruci-
fix out from under his bloody shirt He
wanted to die with the cross before his
eyes Death-stricken and dying, the noble
| Hebrew crawled slowly to the boy. pulled
| out the little cruicfix and held the cross
as the Roman Catholic feebly joined his
hands, and went out of the battle, car
ried home by angels upon his own shield
Oh. it was a beautiful deed, telling US
that the Gentle and the Jew have COM
mon love and q common service, and In
the deeper things are coming closer to-
| gether half hour later, the Red Cross
nurse says she closed the eyes of the
young Hebrew Let us believe that the
two soldier boys, hand in hand, went up
the hills of God, to tell Him their life
story, and for what ideals they lived an"
suffered and died. Remember in this hour
| that men are not rewarded upon the basis
J of their eminenCe through genius or
through gold. Monuments are not built
! alone to brilliant teachers or powerful
millionaires. Jesus is remembered not as
the great soldier, but as the great Lover,
the Great Heart, who lived and died for
those who were dear to Him beyond life,
itself. Therefore, when YOU cannot give,
nor sneak nor write, love-and still love,
and once more break the alabaster box or
love upon the forhead Of Christs little
ones, perchance when the end of your life
/
his whispered word: verify, | say unto
you, wheresoever this gospel of mine
shah be preached. this deed of love that
YOU have done shall be spoken as mem
orial to One who was great Lover
, Mrs. Annie Drummond, the president
of the Federation, who was the presid-
| ing officer of the meeting, then gave
a short talk on the work of the aSso-
ciated societies, and an original poem,
1.-THE House by the Side of the Church,
was read.
Mrs. Daisy .Castland of Lewiston
read paper. entitled "A Successful
! Church Fair" in which she described
a Calendar Carnival, her account of
the fair being very interesting.
Miss Mary Goodwin then rendered a
fine vocal solo entitled Somehow
Mothers Different from the Rest" and
the young lady, who has very SYM
pathetic and expressive voice, was
heartily applaudcd at the close of the
selection.
Miss Marian Brainerd read a bright
little paper, entitled The Mother of
/ Methodism," in which she gave the
delegates an intimate glimpse into the
life and works of Susannah Wesley
and her husband, John Wesley.
Miss Ruth Hill and Rev. w. J. Lay
ton rendered fine duet, being accom-
panied by Mrs. Layton at the piano,
and following their selection an orig
inal poem, Equality" was rendered
by Mrs. Castland.
Mrs. w. r. kreger of Fairfield read
a paper, The Demand of Today" and
the final number was a beautifully
rendered vocal solo by Miss Beryl
Stanchfeld of this city. one of the best
of the Augusta singers.
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